[xubuntu-users] Link between Firefox and Thunderbird.

[Elfy]

On 27/02/15 15:42, Gérald Jean wrote:
> Hello,
>
> running Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, 64-bit on AMD.
>
> This morning the system did a routine upgrade, after which it asks to
> reboot, I clicked yes, it did and from then on, when I click on a link
> in a Thunderbird email, it does open new instances of Firefox every
> time and it does open it on the Welcome page, NOT the page the link is
> supposed to lead to??
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gérald
>
>
That is likely to be this bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425972

There is an xfce bug as well -
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11601

If you're happy to do so you can edit the firefox.desktop file as root

/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/firefox.desktop

The very bottom 2 lines

X-XFCE-Commands=%B -remote "openURL(about:blank,new-window)";%B;
X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=%B -remote "openURL(%s)";%B "%s";

need to be replaced with

X-XFCE-Commands=%B;
X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=%B "%s";