| Summary: | Cannot open link from within thunderbird (probably problem of mozilla-launcher) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Joachim Herb <joachim.herb> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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 *** |
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.