Firefox opening broken links when clicking on a link in Thunderbird

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Tue Dec 2 19:16:52 UTC 2008


Jim wrote:
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> All -
>>
>> I'm running F10 x86_64, up to date as of today.  My home directory is 
>> on NFS, and my .mozilla directory is the same one I've used on RHEL 5 
>> and F9.
>>
>> When I click on a URL in an e-mail message in Thunderbird, it opens 
>> wrong.  For instance, I get an e-mail with the link 
>> http://www.yearone.com/images/email/c146/turkeydayemail.html and I 
>> click on it.  Firefox opens up 
>> file:///images/email/c146/turkeydayemail.html and throws a File Not 
>> Found error.  It seems that the web site is being trimmed for some 
>> reason.
>>
>> Anyone seen this before?  Know how to fix it?
>>
> Yes in i386 also.
> Some websites like linuxtoday.com an lxer.com comes back with Server 
> can't be found.
> I can connect to yahoo.com, redhat.com.
> If I goto to my FC8 box I have no problems of connecting to all websites.
> I have read on Google Search that probly having problems with IPV6 .
> There is a Bug report at bugziila.redhat.com.
> 

It's definitely not ipv6, I have it disabled on this system.

What is the BZ number?

TC




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