I have just upgraded to TB 17 (from TB3). Since upgrade, when I click an URL in an email, it is open in Links instead of Firefox. I have double checked http://en.kioskea.net/faq/1910-thunderbird-opening-http-links-in-firefox and ... in the registery editor, noth variables HTTP and https are set to firefox. And clicking on stuff open them in a Links window. [ebuild R ] mail-client/thunderbird-17.0.9 USE="alsa crypt dbus ipc jit libnotify lightning mozdom startup-notification wifi -bindist -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -gconf -ldap -minimal (-selinux) -system-sqlite" LINGUAS="en_GB fr -ar -ast -be -bg -bn_BD -br -ca -cs -da -de -el -es_AR -es_ES -et -eu -fi -fy_NL -ga_IE -gd -gl -he -hr -hu -hy_AM -id -is -it -ja -ko -lt -nb_NO -nl -nn_NO -pa_IN -pl -pt_BR -pt_PT -rm -ro -ru -si -sk -sl -sq -sr -sv_SE -ta_LK -tr -uk -vi -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB
Created attachment 360354 [details] /tmp/emerge--info /tmp/emerge--info
Bug also hapens in -safe-mode
When you said registry editor, do you mean the configuration editor? What is your desktop environment? Have you checked its default applications? If possible, can you check if downgrading brings back working functionality?
Yes. E17. There is no such thing in E17. Not possible.
Created attachment 360428 [details] backtrace.log
sorry, attachment 360428 [details] was not for this bug. Ignore comment 5 .
> Have you checked its default applications? Mime types management is completely independant of the window manager. It's only affected by desktop managers; desktop managers tend to controle your life like Microsoft and Google already do; to stay free, I use a window manager. So that in my Gentoo, mime are almost unused; but because I already had several bugs because of badly managed mimes, I am aware they can mess stuff. And today it is again the case. From my OpenOffice personnal notes about previous bugs, I took time to have a glance at mimes. In my case the typical action app is /usr/bin/gnome-open . The place to edit to alter the comportement of mimes are /home/dhp/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache . The user one does not contain any reference to http. The system one does: dhp@uranus:~ cat /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache | grep http x-scheme-handler/http=links_-g_%u-links-2.desktop; x-scheme-handler/https=links_-g_%u-links-2.desktop; dhp@uranus:~ What leaves us with two bugs: 1: Thunderbird does not behave as described in the documentation (see link in comment 0). It uses the system mime instead of the userdefined network.protocol-handler.app.http (or documentation is deprecated ? this was the first result in google; and when trying to type "http" or "handler" in the configuration editor, no other line seemed relevant to me ) 2: system mime file contains references only to links while many other browsers are installed: Firefox, Chrome, Opera, lynx, dillo (wget, curl ...). so 2a: only links is mentionned 2b: when several browsers will be put here, most advanced ones should be put first. For reference, this is how I configure the system file to make Ooo use xpdf instead of other readers: dhp@uranus:~ cat /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache | grep pdf application/x-pdf=mupdf.desktop; application/pdf=epdfview.desktop;zzz-gimp.desktop;xpdf.desktop;AdobeReader.desktop;mupdf.desktop; dhp@uranus:~ So, I can fix my box for myself, but there are definitely two bugs here.
(In reply to DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP from comment #0) > I have just upgraded to TB 17 (from TB3). Since upgrade, when I click an URL > in an email, it is open in Links instead of Firefox. > The only way this is supported is to start with a fresh profile. ex. ~/.mozilla/.firefox/*/ As I have seen no mention of you testing with a clean profile that is where you MUST start. I am unable to duplicate using openbox.
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Still using 17.0.9; my fix is still working fine for me. Gentoo team is still waiting for all my bugs to get older than 3y to close them without fixing any of them. This is not giving me hope or faith in the distro.
(In reply to DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP from comment #10) > Still using 17.0.9; my fix is still working fine for me. > > Gentoo team is still waiting for all my bugs to get older than 3y to close > them without fixing any of them. This is not giving me hope or faith in the > distro. We can not help and support you if you do not keep up2date and keep updating bug with needed information that is important.
I am still updating things, and reporting bugs; just, not about computing anymore. I moved to buildings and houses. I don't have time to spend all my life time updating Gentoo just to keep track of bugs. I need to keep time for a real work, a work that produces money and pays the rent. Spent 10y trying to help the community; now it's time to have a private life. There are still several dozens of bugs I did not have time to report. Now, I limit my reports to what can put lives in danger (damaged roof, old electric circuit, moisture and mushrooms issues). Reporting computer bugs have never been usefull, beecause nobody ever fixes them. Dev teams just rewrite things from scratch, remove features, and never fixes their old code. I even proposed ready to apply patches for Xfree ... they have never been merged to trunck (this was before it was renamed Xorg; Xorg code is based on Xfree, and the problem I fixed in my patch still exists in Xorg; so my 15 years old patch is still valid for Xorg). My desktop works nearly as good as in 2010. All my recent devices have much more bugs that the non updated desktop. The phone I bought 2 months ago does not do half of what I still do with the phone from 2014. So, really, why should I update Gentoo when I know it would take me 3 to 6 months to stabilise the update, and that in the way, I would lost 20% to 50% of the features I have now ?