thunderbird doesnt open webbrowser when i click on links

[Albert Zeyer]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

When I click on a http-link in Thunderbird, it does not open anything. My current default browser is chromium-browser.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: thunderbird 3.0.6+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic-pae 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 18 15:05:18 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Are you running thunderbird from within KDE without thunderbird-gnome-support installed? Thunderbird has no KDE integration, but it should probably still open x-www-browser (which most likely isn't your default browser anyway).

If you're running in KDE, then this is really a duplicate of bug 543064

[Albert Zeyer (albertzeyer)]

I have started Thunderbird via the KDE main menu. I have just did a `sudo apt-get install thunderbird`. I don't know exactly if it has installed that gnome-support. How can I check?

I tried to run x-www-browser on console which starts Konqueror for some strange reason. How can I change that to Chromium? When I start Chromium, it says that it is already the default browser.

However, in Thunderbird, when I click on a link, it does nothing, not even start Konqueror.