[SOLVED] fc15 TB -> "Open Link in Browser" doesn't work

Ex_Soft · #1 13th June 2011, 05:58 PM

FC15+GNOME 3+Thunderbird 3.1.10+FireFox 4.0.1
"Open Link in Browser" doesn't work in TB. It works fine in FC14. Is there any acceptable solution of this problem?

Seve · #2 13th June 2011, 08:27 PM

Have a look at the Register protocol page from mozilla. I haven't had to do this lately, however, it did work in the past.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol

Quote:

Firefox 3.5 and above

(Works without installed Gnome libraries)

Type about:config into the Location Bar (address bar) and press Enter.
Right-click -> New -> Boolean -> Name: network.protocol-handler.expose.foo -> Value -> false (Replace foo with the protocol you're specifying)
Next time you click a link of protocol-type foo you will be asked which application to open it with.

Look for about:config in Thunderbird

/Edit
/Preferences
/General
/Config Editor

Ex_Soft · #3 13th June 2011, 08:52 PM

There were network.protocol-handler.expose.http && network.protocol-handler.expose.https in TB. I have added network.protocol-handler.expose.http && network.protocol-handler.expose.https into FF, but the problem still exists.

marriedto51 · #4 14th June 2011, 10:11 AM

I've had a similar problem with older versions of Thunderbird, Firefox, and Fedora. As a "work-around" I've taken to installing an addon for Thunderbird called ThunderBrowse (available via the "Get Add-ons" feature in Thunderbird, or via Mozilla's web pages).

Ex_Soft · #5 15th June 2011, 02:07 PM

BTW, WinXP(SP3)+Thunderbird 3.1.10 (with network.protocol-handler.expose.http && network.protocol-handler.expose.https) + FireFox 4.0.1 (without network.protocol-handler.expose.http && network.protocol-handler.expose.https) works fine too

EkriirkE · #6 8th July 2011, 12:42 AM

Same deal here, x64. Also, suddenly, my SSL IMAP accounts all fail to work. They did for 2 days after I upgraded, now they don't. If I turn encryption off they work.

crispytwo · #7 2nd September 2011, 07:25 PM

to check what you have as a setting you can use this:

gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command

you may get:
firefox5 %s
and in F15 it should be just
firefox %s

launch gconf-editor and browse to that key and set it... worked great for me.

tonthon · #8 24th September 2011, 01:20 PM

I also faced that problem and editing the gconf files solved that issue.
In my case I had
firefox %u
In my files in place of appropriate
firefox %s

Thanks for the tip

ventsyv · #9 24th September 2011, 08:07 PM

Same problem. Turns out Chrome was the default app and it was broken. I fixed it by changing my default browser to FF

EkriirkE · #10 11th December 2011, 04:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tonthon

I also faced that problem and editing the gconf files solved that issue.
In my case I had
firefox %u
In my files in place of appropriate
firefox %s

Thanks for the tip

Following this tip, I was able to get mine working running the following commands in terminal:

Code:

gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command "firefox \"%s\""
gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command "firefox \"%s\""

previously it was pointing to a specific location in /usr/lib64 that did not exist, since ff is in the global search dir, it works without specifying the path.
Thanks!

nonamedotc · #11 11th December 2011, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ventsyv

Same problem. Turns out Chrome was the default app and it was broken. I fixed it by changing my default browser to FF

I had the same problem and this is exactly the fix which worked for me. In fact, I was able to reassign chrome as my default browser again and that also fixed the problem.