Bug 541504

Summary:	www-client/firefox-bin-36.0 does not open URLs passed from thunderbird
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marius Brehler <marius.brehler+gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	heiko.baums
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Marius Brehler 2015-02-27 08:35:43 UTC

After upgrading from firefox-bin-35.0 to firefox-bin-36.0, any clickable link in emails opened with thunderbird results in opening a new browser window, but the URL is not passed and no page is loaded.
I verified this by downgrading to firefox-bin-35.0. With this version everything works as expected. After upgrading the problem occurs.

I use thunderbird-bin-31.5.0 on my system.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Marius Brehler 2015-02-27 08:43:46 UTC

Okay, this is not a firefox issue, I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

After changing the default Web Browser from "Mozilla Firefox" to "firefox" (firefox "%s") in Xfce, everything works as expected again.

Comment 2 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-02-28 15:46:26 UTC

User fixed the issue.

Comment 3 Heiko Baums 2015-03-01 02:50:48 UTC

This happens with www-client/firefox-36.0 and mail-client/thunderbird-31.5.0, too.
The workaround Marius Brehler mentioned works for me, too.

Nevertheless since this happens only after the update to Firefox 36.0 and Thunderbird 31.5.0 without changing anything else I would still consider this a bug either in Firefox, in Thunderbird or Xfce except if it's a new feature. So maybe this bug report should be reopened. It's obviously only a minor issue.