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.
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 ***
