Bug 489120 (xdg-confused)

This should be an F11 blocker!

And please don't ship this version of thunderbird to fc10 .

Confirmed. This is rather annoying.

Thanks for your bugreport. Could you send me what do these values contain in following gconf key names, please?
 /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec
 /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command
 /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/about/command
 /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command

/desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = firefox
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = firefox %s
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/about/command = firefox %s
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = firefox %s

[matej@hubmaier ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec
firefox
[matej@hubmaier ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command
/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.1/firefox "%s"
[matej@hubmaier ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/about/command
firefox %s
[matej@hubmaier ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
firefox %s
[matej@hubmaier ~]$ 

And actually, about: seems to work (at least about:plugins gives a sensible answer)

And yes,

[matej@hubmaier ~]$ which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
[matej@hubmaier ~]$ 

That seems to be correct.

I believe t'bird uses /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0b2/open-browser.sh to open an http link. It looks like t'bird passes the url to open-brower.sh, which uses gnome-open to find the system browser.

But it doesn't:

sh -x open-browser.sh google.com
+ url=google.com
+ '[' -z google.com ']'
+ '[' -f /usr/bin/gnome-open ']'
++ /usr/bin/gnome-open google.com
+ OUTPUT='Error showing url: Error stating file '\''/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0b2/google.com'\'': No such file or directory'
+ '[' 1 -ne 0 ']'
+ error_exit 'Error showing url: Error stating file '\''/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0b2/google.com'\'': No such file or directory'
+ echo 'Error showing url: Error stating file '\''/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0b2/google.com'\'': No such file or directory'
Error showing url: Error stating file '/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0b2/google.com': No such file or directory
+ '[' -a /usr/bin/zenity ']'
+ /usr/bin/zenity --error '--text=Error showing url: Error stating file '\''/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0b2/google.com'\'': No such file or directory'
^C

It looks like something's messed up with gnome-open.

We probably want to use xdg-open anyway.  Does it work if you change open-browser.sh to use xdg-open instead?

You should call open-browser.sh with full URL, eg: 

 open-browser.sh http://google.com

This is at least in my case working. It looks like TB is not running this script at all. Still investigating...

I think Jan is right... I poked this some more today.

I went into the Config Editor for TB (Preferences->Advanced) and looked at "network.protocol-handler.app.http" and "network.protocol-handler.app.https", they were set to "/usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0b2/open-browser.sh". Just for kicks, I changed them to "/usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0b2/open-browser.sh %s". Once I'd done that, when I clicked a link, thunderbird prompted me to select an application to open the URL type. I set it to /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0b2/open-browser.sh and links now open properly in Firefox.

Applicable only as a workaround, but maybe it will shed some light on the actual problem.

Also, noteworthy is that "network.protocol-handler.app.http" and "network.protocol-handler.app.https" are still set to the "/usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0b2/open-browser.sh %s" value that I overrode them to, even though when it prompted me later, I only put in "/usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0b2/open-browser.sh". I'm guessing this information is stored somewhere separate... :/

There seems to be missing nsIGnomeVFSService (NS_GNOMEVFSSERVICE_CONTRACTID) in rawhide build. Looks like missing library in BuildRequirement. I will review the building process after the weekend.

Added missing buildrequires and fixed in next release.

WFM
thunderbird-3.0-2.beta2.fc11.i586