emerge -vp www-client/mozilla-launcher mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.44 0 kB [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r3 [1.0.2] -debug -gnome +ipv6 +java -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznoxft -mozsvg +truetype -xinerama -xprint 32,057 kB [ebuild UD] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-r2 [1.0.6-r3] -debug -gnome +ipv6 +ldap -mozcalendar -moznoxft +truetype -xinerama -xprint 0 kB Total size of downloads: 32,057 kB lets explain: www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.44 has just been updated ... mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-r2 ... emerge want to downgrade because I am already using the r3 patch from http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99844 which is no yet available in portage ... ff: not the problem ... binaries do not move around ... I start TB in console after putting keys: user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "firefox"); in .thunderbird/default/uieiei465iduouo.slt/prefs.js and in the console, I get the message: /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: can't find the browser :-( -1- TB searches in a script, instead of scanning its internal registery, -2- the script (which I just updated) is not able to find FF ... which is installed from sources, no from -bin.
Did you include the wrong bug with the patch? There is no patch on that bug to be included.
sorry, I was in fact thinking about http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99182#c19 ... not 99844
[ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r3 [1.0.2] -debug -gnome +ipv6 You're currently running firefox-1.0.2 on this machine. No wonder it's not working. Please update to the current stable version and re-open if there's still a problem.
right ... after update it works.
