Re: Firefox not opening from Thunderbird links: error, launching default action command

[R. G. Newbury]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:25 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury(a)mandamus.org&gt; wrote:

>  > Firefox 3 was hanging on certain websites. I downgraded to
> Fedora  
2.0.17. Now when I click on a link in a Thunderbird email I get a box 
with the error message:
>  >
>  > Error showing url: There was an error launching the default action  
command
associated with this location.

> this might help,
> http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind0809&L=scientific-linux...
> look at the thread titled "cannot follow hyperlinks in thunderbird" 
Thanks! That was the needed pointer. The script at 
/usr/lib/thunderbird-xxxx calls gconftool-2 to get a key 
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command   which pointed to 
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox as the executable.

Unfortunately my downgrade to version 2 replaced the /usr/lib/firefox 
folder with /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.17 and the reference failed.

Creation of a symlink solved the problem.

Geoff

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