Bugzilla Bug 232213

If a click on a link within an email in thunderbird
(mozilla-thunderbird-bin-2.0.0.14) firefox is not started or if it is already
running the link is not opened in a new tab. Instead a new process is started
(I can see it in the task list) but it stays invisible.



Reproducible: Always




I added "network.protocol-handler.app.http" as string with value
"/opt/firefox/firefox"

The way I started thunderbird was as /usr/bin/thunderbird

With pstree I could see that there is a process mozilla-launcher before the
process thunderbird-bin:

bash─┬─mozilla-launche───thunderbird-bin───8*[{thunderbird-bin}]

If i start thunderbird with the command: /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird
everything is working. But there is then no process mozilla-launcher

The problem appears with both www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.58 and -1.59

Why is the script mozilla-launcher needed anyway? It looks like the purpose was
to reuse an open window if you start thunderbird / firefox a second time. But
this works also without the script simply by call the command
/opt/thunderbird/thunderbird and /opt/firefox/firefox respectively.

This problem appeared after upgrading firefox to firefox 3.0 (and stays after
upgrading to firefox 3.0.1)

Errata: The protocol handler for http points to /opt/firefox/firefox

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 229227 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 229227 ***