[Bug 662175] [NEW] Clicking on "mailto:" URLs on Firefox doesn't start the mail application

[Lorenzo]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

In Firefox, when an user click on a webpage link pointing to a "mailto:"
URL, the browser is supposed to launch a mail composing application
(i.e. Thunderbird, Evolution).

On Ubuntu Lucid, I found that clicking on a link of such kind has no
effect.

I think this is a problem related to the Firefox AppArmor profile  (/ect/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox) shipping with the Firefox package (3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1); in particular, I think I found a typo on the file 
/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-email, that get included in /ect/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox. 

In fact the line:

/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird Ux,

should read

/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0.8/thunderbird Ux,

This modification solved the problem in my case.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 17 15:25:44 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apparmor apport-bug i386 lucid

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Clicking on "mailto:" URLs on Firefox doesn't start the mail application
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