Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Marc Shapiro wrote:
>> Marc Shapiro wrote:
>>
>>> Adam Hardy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Marc Shapiro on 04/12/06 01:38, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am running Etch and want to continue to use the branded Firefox
>>>>> (2.0) and Thunderbird. I do not want to switch to Icedove and
>>>>> IceWeasel. I have been running the upstream Firefox 2.0 for a
>>>>> while, now, with no problems. When I switched from
>>>>> debian-thunderbird to the upstream version (1.5.0.8) urls stopped
>>>>> opening in firefox. They have, in fact, stopped opening in anything.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have made sure that /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser is pointing
>>>>> to the proper firefox binary and I don't know what else to check.
>>>>> I can not find any configuration option, or preference, that says
>>>>> where links should open, only where html attachments should open.
>>>>> Can anyone tell me what I am missing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure you mean urls stopped working in FF? Not TB? If TB,
>>>> then try going into your preferences / Advanced / General / Config
>>>> editor, and edit the following property:
>>>>
>>>> network.protocol-handler.app.http
>>>>
>>>> to point to the firefox app.
>>>
>>>
>>> I must not have been clear. I fully expect that the problem is with
>>> Thunderbird and not Firefox. I looked for that configuration item
>>> and did not see it. I will have to check again tonight, when I get
>>> the time to check into it. I was about to add the line manually to
>>> prefs.js. I also found a reference to setting
>>> network.protocol-handler.external.http to false and setting
>>> network.protocol-handler.expose to true, as well. I will have to
>>> look for these, this evening, as well. I will report back if I have
>>> any success.
>>>
>> I could not find that configuration item in the list. I exited
>> thunderbird and manually added the lines to prefs.js and then
>> restarted thunderbird. The preferences then showed up, but it did
>> not change anything. Thunderbird still fails to send the url to
>> firefox. Since the debian package of thunderbird had worked
>> previously, I decided to try icedove. It did not work, either. If I
>> can't get links in my e-mail to open a browser, I may have to just
>> stick with Sarge and not upgrade at all.
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>> BTW, I read something about firefox requiring gconf to handle this.
>> Is that true? Because I do not have gconf installed on the Etch
>> partitions.
>>
>>
> Now I feel silly! As neer as I can tell, all that I needed to do was
> to set the network.protocol-handler.app.http config option using the
> FULL PATH to the firefox binary. I did not need gconf, just a
> complete path.
>
> Thank you to all who responded.
>
>
Along these same lines if anyone is looking for the fix for Iceweasel,
IceDove, and Evolution:

I found that same thing to be true for Iceweasel with Evolution as I
could no longer open urls in emails in a browser without copying and
pasting them. I put /usr/bin/firefox %s(/usr/bin/firefox is a symbolic
link to Iceweasel) in the text box in "Preferred Applications" for the
preferred browser. Just the path alone will not work correctly. It
will open the browser or a new tab, but to the home page, not the url
just clicked on. The %s is required for opening the url found in the
email client.



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