Latest Firefox 3.6.6 - I don't like it... *SOLVED*

[Basil Chupin]

On 03/07/10 07:07, Traveller wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 11:40 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 02/07/10 10:58, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>      
>>> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 05:44:59PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> On 01/07/10 08:05, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 04:20:01PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> I had a perfectly working combination of Thunderbird and Firefox whereby
>>>>>> clicking on an URL link in TB would bring up that link in
>>>>>> Firefox......until this latest version, 3.6.6, installed earlier today
>>>>>> :-) . That nice link has now been destroyed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FF is my default browser, its path is written correctly in its
>>>>>> preferences (and it starts OK using this path on a command line), the
>>>>>> config file for TB hasn't been altered....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone else suffering this annoyance following the upgrade of FF?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>> Yup.
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> Oh good, I wasn't imagining it then :-) .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>>      Upgraded from FF 3.0.x to 3.6.6 (some jump, huh?) and suddenly
>>>>> couldn't bring up FF from a URL in Mutt. Ran a few searches and found the
>>>>> fix was to add "export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox" to my ~/.bashrc file.
>>>>> After I verified that it worked I commented it out, rebooted, and saw
>>>>> the same problem. Uncommented the entry and everything was fine.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> Unless what you wrote above is not quite right or I am not reading it
>>>> correctly, adding a line into my .bashrc exactly as you show produces
>>>> the same result as one from a dead horse :-( .
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I'll be damned.
>>>        
>>
>> Welcome to the club :-) .
>>
>>
>>      
>>>     It looks like Alpine, which I also have on my system,
>>> doesn't have the problem but Mutt does. Alpine has the FF path right in
>>> it's configuration file but Mutt depends on urlscan or urlview (separate
>>> programs from Mutt) to call the browser. The
>>> /usr/share/doc/urlscan/README file says
>>>
>>> "urlscan uses sensible-browser to invoke the default  Web browser of
>>> the  current environment.   To choose  a particular  browser,  set the
>>> environment variable BROWSER; e.g.,
>>>
>>> export BROWSER=/usr/bin/epiphany"
>>>
>>> which, of course, changes to FF. Only used T'bird briefly a few years
>>> ago and can't remember the where browser is called but he ~/.bashrc
>>> entry *should* be a universal fix (it says here in fine print).
>>>
>>>        
>> I installed Maverick Alpha #2 earlier today and the same behaviour
>> happens between TB and FF: simply clicking on the link does nothing nor
>> does R-C'ing and selecting Open Link with Browser :-( . This feature has
>> been deaded :-( - for me at least.
>>
>> HOWEVER! Some good nooos!
>>
>> For many years I have had an add-on called Launchy installed in TB and
>> which never worked, so I disabled it.
>>
>> I decided to go for broke and re-activated it. And suddenly something
>> which didn't work for years sprang into life, and Launchy works! Means 3
>> more mouse clicks...but whose counting, eh? :-)
>>
>> BC
>>
>>
>>
>>      
> Just out of curiosity, have you checked Preferences>  Attachments to
> make sure that FireFox is properly set as the handler for http? I had
> this sort of behaviour on my Windoze box awhile ago, and found that,
> even though the handler claimed to be FireFox, it was pointing in the
> wrong direction. I had to "re-aim" it, and all was well.
> 	Dave
>    


BINGO!

The Attachments did show Firefox (Default) so one assumes that 
everything is working perfectly. But not so. I selected for http and 
https the OTHER box and then physically selected /usr/bin/firefox - 
after which the click on link to start FF now works!

Many thanks for solving this vexing puzzle!

I am sure that quite a number of other people will now get TB to call up 
FF (Billie are you reading?).

BC


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