Description of problem: SSIA. Clicking the "Get more extensions" link from Thunderbird produces the following error: Error showing url: There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location. <OK> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): thunderbird-0.8.0-1 firefox-0.10.0-1.0PR1.2 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use "Preferred Applications" to set default mail client to Thunderbird, and default web browser to firefox. 2. Launch Thunderbird and go to Tools -> Extensions 3. Click "Get more extensions" Actual results: Error message described above. Expected results: Firefox should launch and go to the https://update.mozilla.org/ page for Thunderbird extensions. Additional info: Same error message is produced when "Get more themes" is clicked. Firefox is launched as expected when clicking links in an email message.
Works fine for me in latest rawhide.
I had the same problem. If it is like me it comes from an older configuration I herited from first versions of Thunderbird. This can be solved by changing the default browser twice. If you use GNOME2 you can go to: GNOME Control Centre> Advanced> Preferred Applications and configure your default browser (do it once with Mozilla, and the second time wih Firefox) ... it should now work. ---Beppe---
Thanks to Beppe for the hint above. It is indeed caused by bringing over a /home dir containing old info. If you are not running Gnome, and only have KDE installed, you can fix it like this: vi ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/%gconf.xml (Do the same for https after : vi ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/%gconf.xml ) Change (well... this is what I saw) the bad /usr/lib/firefox-0.10-1/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox My current firefox was 1.0, maybe I did not run Gnome since that time or something. Save it. Then one more step, gconfd runs as the interface to this stuff for Firebird, even when you are KDE-only. It has the old config still loaded. You must killall -9 gconfd-2, then Firebird will properly service URL clicks. Woohoo!
I am running FC3 using icewm as my window manager. No HTML links will work in Thunderbird - not even the ones in the Welcome to Mozilla Thunderbird panel. The above files do not exist on my system (~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/%gconf.xml, etc) Here's what I did to get it working. 1. Based on info here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html I located my prefs file ~/.thunderbird/60hya6x9.default/prefs.js - your location will be different - just look under ~/.thunderbird 2. Stop thunderbird - it seems to write the prefs.js file upon exit. 3. I added the following line BEFORE the user_pref("network.proxy.ftp"... entry: 4. Saved file 5. Start thunderbird.