Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1002068
clicking on url within thunderbird opens empty new browser window
Last modified: 2013-10-29 07:03:01 EDT
Description of problem: Clicking on a url within thunderbird doesn't lead to said url in a browser. Instead it opens an empty browser window Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 17.0.8 (fedora 19 kde) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. click on an url in a mail (or, e.g., in the About thunderbird window) Actual results: Empty new browser window opens Expected results: New tab within existing browser session opens, displaying the url Additional info: This is new behaviour for me
using firefox from okular (mouse select a word, right click, 'Search for ... with google' does open a new tab with the correct page within an existing firefox session. So in my opinion the unexpected behaviour initiates from thunderbird, not firefox
Please attach output of following commands: xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http konqbrowser.desktop xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https chromium-browser.desktop Clicking on an https link opens a box where I can select which application to use. If I choose firefox, then the same things happens as before (an empty window opens ignoring the fact that ff is open already, no link displayed). If I choose to open the https link with chromium-browser however, it does open the correct link as a new tab within an existing session! After some googling I entered the following command without success: xdg-mime default firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/http I use KDE
The problem has disappeared after a few updates (current thunderbird&firefox 24.0). Today upon clicking a https link I was prompted to choose an application. then updating the application for http links (firefox) worked as expected