Clicking on "mailto:" URLs on Firefox doesn't start the mail application
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
apparmor (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Jamie Strandboge | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Maverick |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Jamie Strandboge |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
In Firefox, when an user click on a webpage link pointing to a "mailto:" URL, the browser is supposed to launch a mail composing application (i.e. Thunderbird, Evolution).
On Ubuntu Lucid, I found that clicking on a link of such kind has no effect.
I think this is a problem related to the Firefox AppArmor profile (/ect/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
In fact the line:
/usr/lib/
should read
/usr/lib/
This modification solved the problem in my case.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.10+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 17 15:25:44 2010
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 3.6.10+
firefox-
firefox-branding 3.6.10+
abroswer N/A
abrowser-branding N/A
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
I'm afraid I do not have the skills to test the apparmor theory, but I'm using the Mozilla build of Thunderbird (3.1.6), Firefox 3.6.12 and Maverick, and I've been unable to get a mailto to work despite more time Googling than I can afford right now!