This is a rehash of #229227 for firefox-3.5-r2. It appears to affect non-(-bin) firefox now, unlike the prior bug. mozilla-thunderbird needlessly gets launched under aoss (via mozilla-launcher), which causes LD_PRELOAD to be set to libaoss.so. This makes firefox to hang on startup when it is launched by a link in thunderbird. I can work around this by making a simple wrapper script around /usr/bin/firefox that unsets LD_PRELOAD first.
I am having the same problem I believe. When I try to open a link from an email, firefox won't start
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When you say a wrapper script, please describe in detail how you did this.
Just putting this somewhere in my $PATH and making it the http:// handler for Thunderbird: #!/bin/bash unset LD_PRELOAD exec /usr/bin/firefox "$@"
Any progress on this bug? I've tried replacing the http handler pointing to a script containing the lines from the comment before this one and it works. However, for reasons I don't understand the setting is returned to the default /usr/bin/firefox after a couple of restarts on thunderbird. I even tried editing the prefs.js script when thunderbird is not running, but the setting it is still lost after a while.
(In reply to comment #5) > However, for reasons I don't understand the setting is returned to the default > /usr/bin/firefox after a couple of restarts on thunderbird. > > I even tried editing the prefs.js script when thunderbird is not running, but > the setting it is still lost after a while. > I just did mine and it worked. Maybe you need to try adding/creating a user.js and putting it there without thunderbird running. Worth a shot. The script in comment#4 works for me. I tried another script found, but is the unset LD_PRELOAD here that makes this work. Great work around till they get this fixed!! I am using Firefox-3.5.4 and having the problem unless use the script in #4.
the script of comment #4 works for me since 2-3 months.
Thunderbird-3 drops mozilla-launcher support all together. Mozilla firefox-bin will be updated later today which will also drop the buggy mozilla-launcher support. If anyone can reproduce this with thunderbird-3 please let me know.
(In reply to comment #8) > Thunderbird-3 drops mozilla-launcher support all together. Mozilla firefox-bin > will be updated later today which will also drop the buggy mozilla-launcher > support. If anyone can reproduce this with thunderbird-3 please let me know. > I have the problem reported in this bug with thunderbird-2.0.0.23 and firefox 3.5.6 on 2 x86 machines, the strange thing is that on my amd64 machine, with the same versions I don't have this problem. Any progress on this bug ?
(In reply to comment #9) > (In reply to comment #8) > > Thunderbird-3 drops mozilla-launcher support all together. Mozilla firefox-bin > > will be updated later today which will also drop the buggy mozilla-launcher > > support. If anyone can reproduce this with thunderbird-3 please let me know. > > > > I have the problem reported in this bug with thunderbird-2.0.0.23 and firefox > 3.5.6 on 2 x86 machines, the strange thing is that on my amd64 machine, with > the same versions I don't have this problem. Any progress on this bug ? > Feel free to reopen and update summary if problem persists in tb-3.0.3
(In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #9) > > (In reply to comment #8) > > > Thunderbird-3 drops mozilla-launcher support all together. Mozilla firefox-bin > > > will be updated later today which will also drop the buggy mozilla-launcher > > > support. If anyone can reproduce this with thunderbird-3 please let me know. > > > > > > > I have the problem reported in this bug with thunderbird-2.0.0.23 and firefox > > 3.5.6 on 2 x86 machines, the strange thing is that on my amd64 machine, with > > the same versions I don't have this problem. Any progress on this bug ? > > > > Feel free to reopen and update summary if problem persists in tb-3.0.3 > I cannot find anymore my customized handler in thunderbird configuration editor , anyway I have tb-3.0.3 and ff-3.5.8 and I don't have any problem.
