Comment 13 for bug 57923

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Ian Jackson (ijackson) wrote : Re: [Bug 57923] Re: Opening firefox by clicking on links in thunderbird breaks https

James Troup writes ("[Bug 57923] Re: Opening firefox by clicking on links in thunderbird breaks https"):
> I've managed to track this down to the fact that thunderbird spawns
> firebird with /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird at the front of
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. As a result the copy of libnss in there gets
> preference to firefox's and is presumably what causes the problem.
> Forcefully inserting /usr/lib to the front of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the
> /usr/bin/firefox wrapper would be enough to work around this problem.

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I think stripping out mozilla-thunderbird would be a better plan.
Thanks very much for your investigation.

Ian.