links in e-mail don't open in external browser

[Simon Oosthoek]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

After upgrading to 10.04.1, I now have thunderbird 3.x instead of 2.x and today I noticed that clicking on a link in an e-mail message in thunderbird didn't open the link in my browser as expected.

in the thunderbird error console I noticed this line:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIExternalProtocolService.loadUrl]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://communicator/content/contentAreaClick.js :: openLinkExternally :: line 188" data: no]

I used to have a few lines in my prefs.js to open firefox for this, but it seems this is ignored or fails in some way.

I have these lines:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "firefox");

I can't really tell whether this is a bug or something inadvertently I caused myself by upgrading with these (old) settings.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: thunderbird 3.0.6+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 2 10:51:32 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Are you running this in a non-GNOME desktop?

[Simon Oosthoek (simon-margo)]

Yes, I'm running kde sc 4.5.0
from deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu lucid main

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks. That is bug 543064 then