Bug 690233

Summary:	"open link in browser" not working
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alastair Neil <aneil2>
Component:	thunderbird	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl
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Description Alastair Neil 2011-03-23 16:32:11 UTC

Description of problem:
right click on a link in an email body and select "open link in browser" should open the link in a browser.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.1.9
1.fc15

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.right click on link
2.select "Open Link in Browser"
3.
  
Actual results:
Disappointment

Expected results:
Link opened in running browser or browser spawned with link

Additional info:
The functionality of controlling preferred applications for email and browsing is not available under gnome-shell via control-panel

A work around is to copy the link and paste into the browser - this is not really an acceptable long term solution.

Comment 1 Alastair Neil 2011-03-23 16:32:53 UTC

opening links from the gnome-terminal seems to work OK I just noticed.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2011-03-23 23:41:36 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Additional info:
> The functionality of controlling preferred applications for email and browsing
> is not available under gnome-shell via control-panel

It is, but it is in a different place ... System Info / Default Applications 

However, this is just default ... check the current setting for Thunderbird in Edit / Preferences / Advanced / Editor Configuration variable network.protocol-handler.app.http. Default value is /usr/lib*/thunderbird-3.1/open-browser.sh

Thank you

Comment 3 Alastair Neil 2011-03-24 15:59:38 UTC

Thanks for this, I'm mark it as not a bug.  The issue was that I had stale info in my home directory gconf settings as I was using firefox4 from the remi repo before I installed v15.

However I have to say "System Info" seems to me to be a bizarre location for what is effectively a Personal choice.  I looked under User Accounts  - but System Info did not even occur to me as a location for a desktop setting.  It seems to me that it should be under Personal in it's own category.