Setting the HTTP external program in OO Tools | Options dialog doesn't work properly. This may be a mozilla bug, but here's what happens. Setting this program to 'firefox' should access the symbolic link /usr/bin/firefox which links to the executable shell script /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher. This script knows the name by which it was called and runs through a set of cases to do the proper setup. However, no matter whether I use firefox or mozilla as the HTTP external app, the script fails with the followng error: /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: unknown browser Modifying script to show the name of the calling program in this error, I would get: /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: mozilla-launcher: unknown browser What's apparently happening here is that Open Office is dereferencing the symbolic links /usr/bin/firefox and /usr/bin/mozilla internally and calling /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher directly, which won't work since this script must be called using the symbolic links. Using galeon, or calling /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin instead (both of which are executables rather than links) works as expected.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78890 ***