Bug 557729

Summary:	Thunderbird does not open links in chrome
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Felix Möller <mail>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, pertusus, rdieter, rvcsaba
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Description Felix Möller 2010-01-22 12:16:58 UTC

I use chrome as my default browser. All application respect that (i.e. clicking on a link in the updater applet, or empathy open that page in chrome.)

Thunderbird somehow ignores it. It opens a chrome window but does not open the right URL in it, but just the start page. Looking into it I found that it should execute /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0/open-browser.sh. But after adding some debug statements to that I had to realize this is not executed at all.

Searching further I found http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=479e566824181986&hl=en which suggest that other Fedora users have the same problem.

Comment 1 rvcsaba 2010-01-22 18:18:26 UTC

Please see my bugreport! :)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557599

Comment 2 Felix Möller 2010-01-22 18:27:31 UTC

strange. For me the setting of the default browser had an influence. I made chrome to the default browser by clicking a button in chromes option panel. 
So it is not using firefox constantly as in your case...

The problem is that the URL gets not passed correctly to chrome and that /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0/open-browser.sh is not executed at all.

Comment 3 rvcsaba 2010-01-22 22:42:29 UTC

Oh...

gconf-editor

Edit menu, Find...

Type Search for: url-handlers

Click OK

Edit /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command to xdg-open "%s"
Edit /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command to xdg-open "%s"
Edit /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp/command to xdg-open "%s"

:)

Comment 4 Felix Möller 2010-01-23 00:36:14 UTC

The problem might be on chromes side:

Chrome seems to set the following when it wants to be the default browser.
[fm@thinkpad ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

It does work after changing to the following:
[fm@thinkpad ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome "%s"

The upstream report is at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=23973

Comment 5 Felix Möller 2010-01-30 10:43:12 UTC

according to upstream. xdg-utils have to be updated.

Although I am still wondering why just thunderbird needs the %s ...

Comment 6 Felix Möller 2010-01-30 10:47:19 UTC

xdg upstream has commited the patch by google. See http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/

Comment 7 Rex Dieter 2010-04-09 19:58:43 UTC

Gotcha.

Comment 8 Rex Dieter 2010-04-09 19:59:46 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 580715 ***