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

[Billie Walsh]

On 07/03/2010 08:31 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 03/07/10 21:33, Billie Walsh wrote:
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>> On 07/02/2010 11:28 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>>> On 03/07/10 07:07, Traveller wrote:
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>>>> On 01/07/2010 11:40 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>>>>> On 02/07/10 10:58, Robert Holtzman wrote:
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>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 05:44:59PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>>>>>>> On 01/07/10 08:05, Robert Holtzman wrote:
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>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 04:20:01PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>>>>> 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....
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>>>>>>>>> Anyone else suffering this annoyance following the upgrade of FF?
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>>>>>>>> Yup.
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>>>>>>> Oh good, I wasn't imagining it then :-) .
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>>>>>>>>         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.
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>>>>>>> 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 :-( .
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>>>>>> I'll be damned.
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>>>>> Welcome to the club :-) .
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>>>>>>        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
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>>>>>> "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.,
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>>>>>> export BROWSER=/usr/bin/epiphany"
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>>>>>> 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).
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> HOWEVER! Some good nooos!
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>>>>> For many years I have had an add-on called Launchy installed in TB and
>>>>> which never worked, so I disabled it.
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>>>>> 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
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>>>> 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
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>>> BINGO!
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>>> 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!
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>>> Many thanks for solving this vexing puzzle!
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>>> I am sure that quite a number of other people will now get TB to call up
>>> FF (Billie are you reading?).
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>>> BC
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>> I'm reading. I didn't have an issue with the update. In fact it "fixed"
>> a couple minor little annoyances I was having with Firefox.
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> But, but...don't you have the problem with whatever version of TB you
> are running where clicking on a link does not bring up Firefox?
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The update hasn't broken anything in my T'Bird to Firefox opening of 
links. At least on the Desktop. I haven't tried the newest updates on my 
laptop [ Kubuntu 10.4 ] and netbook [ Eeebuntu 10.4 ] yet. The updates 
are done I just haven't started them back up since.

As ignorant as I am at how to fix things you would think I would be the 
one in the deep brown sauce all the time, but for some stupid reason I 
have very few issues. I hardly ever see any of the issues I see on the 
lists. Most everything just seems to work for me. Maybe the Computer 
Gods just smile on me because I am so ignorant.

Now, if they would just get Quanta updated for KDE 4.x I would be one 
VERY happy camper.

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>> And, by the way, I finally got my Wacom Tablet to work in Kubuntu. Took
>> most of yesterday off and on but it now works
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> Aaaah, now THAT is good news!
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> Tell all - how did you get it to finally work? Was it the new (?)0.6.6
> driver?
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> BC
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