Description of problem: Up until the recent update of Alpine, to 2.oo I have been able to view URL links by clicking on them in Alpine email messages. With the recent updates I can no longer do this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.00 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try clicking on a URL in an open email in Alpine 2.00 to view it in your browser with Firefox set as the URL viewer. 2. 3. Actual results: When I click on a link, the Alpine screen goes blank, as if it was launching the external viewer. The screen returns to normal, and I get the message, "Viewer command completed". The external viewer is set in the .pinerc config file with: # List of programs to open Internet URLs (e.g. http or ftp references). url-viewers=/usr/bin/firefox The problem is the URL does not load in my browser, Firefox. This was working until recent updates of F8. Expected results: I expect the URL I click on to view to load into Firefox, so I can view the page the URL points at. Additional info: None.
It may be firefox. Double-clicking on the tab bar does not create a new tabbed window.
Works now. I terminated all instances of firefox and restarted it.
I'd wager that Firefox had been updated (to 2.0.0.17-1.fc8) since it had been restarted. It goes all wonky when that happens, with weird effects (inability to right-click on some things, or go to SSL sites, etc). I've gotten burned by that more times than I care to count. On Windows Firefox forces a restart on upgrade (mainly because FF manages the upgrade), but we don't (can't?) do that here. Shame.