Bug 93142 – Problem linkopening out of an Email in Thunderbird

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Florian Manschwetus 2005-05-18 23:57:18 UTC]

Many have reported me, that nothing happen if they klick on a Link in an EMail
in Thunderbird or the currentsite in Firefox is overwritten.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open Thunderbird
2.open firefox on an url of your choice
3.klick on a Link in an Email

Actual Results:  
nothing happens or current site in firefox is overwritten

Expected Results:  
New window or new tab (this is the best solution) containing Linklocation

this can be fixed by the following steps:
1. locate viewurl-mozilla.sh (should be on your system)
2. open it as root
3. modify it on line 25 (MOZILLA=mozilla) to  MOZILLA=firefox (modified file
attached this bug should be placed in /usr/bin and marked as writeable name is
viewurl-firefox.sh so you have to replace in Step 6. viewurl-mozilla.sh with
viewurl-firefox.sh)

4. install Thunderbirdplugin About Config (I used 0.5)
5. restart Thunderbird and open Tools=>about:config
6. modify/add String with name "network.protocol-handler.app.http" and Value 
   "viewurl-mozilla.sh"
7. restart Thunderbird and try it again (should work now)

[Comment 1 Florian Manschwetus 2005-05-19 00:01:00 UTC]

Created attachment 59255 [details]
the modified viewurl-mozilla.sh not perfekt but should work

look at extended Buginfo

[Comment 2 Florian Manschwetus 2005-05-19 00:23:40 UTC]

I made an mistake the file must be executable not writeable the permissions
should be like this:
 # ls -lha /usr/bin/viewurl-firefox.sh 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1,5K 19. Mai 08:56 /usr/bin/viewurl-firefox.sh

the plugin I used could be found at:
http://aboutconfig.mozdev.org/

and could be downloaded at:
http://aboutconfig.mozdev.org/installation.html

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 01:13:32 UTC]

Honestly, you should bug upstream about this... 

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html

Also similar to Bug 56921.

[Comment 4 Florian Manschwetus 2005-05-19 02:06:32 UTC]

It's near but not the same the idea is the same but the script is not part of
the firefoxinstallation but it should be part of it.
Further there is no acceptable resolution mentioned, it is outline by cobining
ideas out of the bug and following the link.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 02:38:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> the script is not part of the firefoxinstallation but it should be part of it.

Yup, that

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 02:38:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> the script is not part of the firefoxinstallation but it should be part of it.

Yup, that´s exactly why you should complain upstream... :-)

[Comment 7 Florian Manschwetus 2005-05-19 09:24:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > the script is not part of the firefoxinstallation but it should be part of it.
> 
> Yup, that

[Comment 8 Florian Manschwetus 2005-05-19 09:24:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > the script is not part of the firefoxinstallation but it should be part of it.
> 
> Yup, that´s exactly why you should complain upstream... :-)
> 

sorry I'am not very fit with english so I can't determine what I should do.

[Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 11:45:43 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> sorry I'am not very fit with english so I can't determine what I should do.

OK, I

[Comment 10 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 11:45:43 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> sorry I'am not very fit with english so I can't determine what I should do.

OK, I´m trying to explain that this is not a Gentoo-specific problem, so it
would be better to ask TB developers to fix it...

[Comment 11 Florian Manschwetus 2005-05-25 03:50:31 UTC]

you should also add the entry:

network.protocol-handler.app.https
viewurl-mozilla.sh

to open secure http links out of email

[Comment 12 Jory A. Pratt 2005-07-18 10:34:38 UTC]

We have fixed the issue in latest ebuild of firefox.