thunderbird no longer opens clicked URLs in a web browser (protocol-handler.app.http) ?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Steven
Stern<subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
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> On 08/19/2009 09:22 AM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> Ever since updating to thunderbird-3.0beta3 (in Fedora11), any URLs
>> that I click on fail to do anything.  Previously they opened up in
>> Firefox.  I've got the following set in thunderbird:
>>
>> network.protocol-handler.app.http;firefox
>> network.protocol-handler.app.https;firefox
>> network.protocol-handler.app.ftp;firefox
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this problem?
>>
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> Go into Firefox and make sure you enable it as the default browser.

And that fixed it, thanks.  I'm still puzzled why that should be
required though.



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