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

[Karl Larsen]

On 06/30/2010 09:16 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 30/06/10 23:45, Tony Pursell wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 06:14 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On 06/30/2010 12:20 AM, 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?http://www.ubuntu.org
>>>>
>>>> BC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>            Have you reboot since you loaded 3.6.6 ? There are other ways
>>> to fix your problem but reboot is simple.
>>>
>>> 73 Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> I restarted Firefox after update then no problem opening links in
>> Evolution.
>>      
> Ummmm, what does Thunderbird have to do with Evolution?
>
> Evolution is Evolution; Thunderbird is Thunderbird.
>
> Unless I have been totally missing something for years of course.
>
>
>    
>> I s it just a Thunderbird problem?  For instance, open a terminal and
>> type in http://www.ubuntulinux.org then right click it and select Open
>> Link.  What do you get?  If you get an error, check what you have in
>> System>   Preferences>   Preferred Applications.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>      
> Thanks, Tony, but as I stated, the path to FF is correct. And when I do
> what you just suggested (although I think what you suggested is not
> quite right) I get an error, "No such file or directory" even though I
> can start FF from ALT-F2 using the correct path (/usr/bin/firefox -
> where FF is a symlink to where it actually resides).
>
> This whole question about TB not being able to auto bring up links in FF
> has been around for quite some time. Suggestions about not having the
> correct activation statement in Preferences for FF is one such
> suggestion for failure of TB to call FF; another one is not having
> either or both as the default internet applications, another one is not
> having the correct parameter written in the TB's user.js or in FF's
> about:config settings.... In earlier years there was this thing called
> launchy.xml in FF - but I deleted it some years ago and TB still linked
> with FF.
>
> That is until today... :-( . Not nice, not nice at all.
>
>
> BC
>
>
>    
             I am just testing Firefox 3.6.6 and must say it appears to 
work just fine on my computer. I had a url in another file and it was 
brought up just like it should.


73 Karl


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