Since updating to mozilla-firefox version 1.5.0.4 (as part of 'emerge -u world'), I've lost the ability to right-click a URL in gnome-terminal and open the link. When I try, Firefox pops up an error window, saying: Could not open the address "http://www.yahoo.com": There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location. Googling for that error suggests that this is something that can happen if Firefox's support files are buggy, but the details are beyond my browser and XML mojo... $ emerge --info Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5heavy-2006013100 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5heavy-2006013100 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo bzip2 calendar cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups curl curlwrapers dga dio directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors mad maildir mbox mikmod mime mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi ncurses nls nocd nptl nsplugin offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix potgres pppd python quicktime readline reflection ruby sasl sdl session sharedmem slang sockets source sox speex spell spl sqlite sse ssl svga sysvipc tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vhosts videos vorbis wifi xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Move the FF profile away and try again.
Don't know what the FF profile is; I tried setting aside ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini, but then firefox won't run at all; I get a popup saying (to wit, since I had to put things back in order to get at the gentoo bugs site) "Cannot execute /usr/lib/mozilla/firefox, make sure the command exists." Oh well. It's clear I don't know what I'm doing. Closing the bug.
