Thunderbird starts Konqueror instead of Firefox when clicking to links in mails

[markusd112]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

After the upgrade from ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 Thunderbird starts Konqueror instead of Firefox when I click to a link in an email. I can't find any solution to force starting firefox instead of konqueror.

In the Gnome Settings (System --> Preferred Applications) is Firefox selected as default browser.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: thunderbird 3.1.4+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 19 07:09:46 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

[markusd112 (markusd112)]

Update: links with "http://" are started in firefox, but links with SSL encrypted http ("https://") are started in konqueror

[Ian Brock (brock-physik)]

I see the same problem, also for http.
I am using Kubuntu 10.10.
Firefox is also set as the default browser in System Settings.

[philippe.pachot (philippe-pachot-laposte)]

Same problem, for http and https, after upgrade from kubuntu 10.04 to 10.10. Firefox is default browser in System settings and also in thunderbird in network.protocol-handler.app.http and network.protocol-handler.app.https. I don't know how to fix it.

[philippe.pachot (philippe-pachot-laposte)]

Update : this can be corrected with the command :
sudo update-alternatives --verbose --config x-www-browser

and choose firefox

[markusd112 (markusd112)]

"sudo update-alternatives --verbose --config x-www-browser" was successful here

[Worik (worik-stanton)]

"sudo update-alternatives --verbose --config x-www-browser" was not enough for me (it was set to epiphany)

I had to go to preferences->preferred applications and change the Internet/Webbrowser from "Custom" to "firefox"

These were changed by the upgrade to 10.10.

That's a bug

Worik

[Bruno Léon (bruno-leon)]

"sudo update-alternatives --verbose --config x-www-browser" was successful here as well

Still that as not necessary before.

[Ian Brock (brock-physik)]

That fixed the problem for me as well, but I still consider it as a bug.

Ian

[LukeKendall (luke-zeta)]

I had a similar problem.
Thunderbird (3) has options to set the application to use to open links. I had this set to the correct Firefox installed when I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04. It did not work: links (http or https) would not open.
IMO the bug is that there is more than one place to set the functionality for opening links: in this case, one place is in TB, and the other is via System>Settings>Preferred Applications.
In my case, at some distant time in the past I had set the Web Browser (and mail, too) to open a Custom path
(to an older firefox which I wouldn't expect to work under 10.04).
I think the correct solution would require a Gnome variant of TB to strip the ignored and deceptive configuration choice from TB, to be installed as the Ubuntu version. Either that, or only use the system preference as a fallback to application-specific preferences.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Markusd,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird.

You made this bug report in 2010 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
Or, if it is still a problem, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 663100

and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.

G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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