Bug 464848 - Cannot view URL links anymore when clicking on them from Alpine 2.00
Summary: Cannot view URL links anymore when clicking on them from Alpine 2.00
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: alpine
Version: 8
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Joshua Daniel Franklin
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-30 20:16 UTC by Keith Roberts
Modified: 2008-10-01 14:31 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-10-01 06:26:50 UTC
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Description Keith Roberts 2008-09-30 20:16:30 UTC
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.
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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.

Comment 1 Keith Roberts 2008-10-01 06:20:14 UTC
It may be firefox. Double-clicking on the tab bar does not create a new tabbed window.

Comment 2 Keith Roberts 2008-10-01 06:26:50 UTC
Works now. I terminated all instances of firefox and restarted it.

Comment 3 Jima 2008-10-01 14:31:54 UTC
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.


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