Hi, System is f41, fully updated. Desktop is GNOME PC is Lenovo Thinkpad X280. After an update a week or two ago clicking on a link in a thunderbird email stopped working. An update today installed a new thunderbird, 128.9.0esr (64-bit) and this situation persists. The browser is firefox but at one point in the past it was firefox-wayland I think. I can right click and copy the link and then paste it into firefox already running (acceptable work around) But I would like to get it working as expected, launch firefox or open a window in one already running. Any suggestions are welcome, TIA, Roger Wells
On 4/11/25 3:35 PM, Roger Wells via users wrote:
After an update a week or two ago clicking on a link in a thunderbird email stopped working. An update today installed a new thunderbird, 128.9.0esr (64-bit) and this situation persists. The browser is firefox but at one point in the past it was firefox- wayland I think. I can right click and copy the link and then paste it into firefox already running (acceptable work around) But I would like to get it working as expected, launch firefox or open a window in one already running. Any suggestions are welcome,
Check in the firefox General settings to see if it's the default browser.
On 4/11/25 6:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/11/25 3:35 PM, Roger Wells via users wrote:
After an update a week or two ago clicking on a link in a thunderbird email stopped working. An update today installed a new thunderbird, 128.9.0esr (64-bit) and this situation persists. The browser is firefox but at one point in the past it was firefox- wayland I think. I can right click and copy the link and then paste it into firefox already running (acceptable work around) But I would like to get it working as expected, launch firefox or open a window in one already running. Any suggestions are welcome,
Check in the firefox General settings to see if it's the default browser.
In: General Startup "Firefox is currently your default browser"
thx, Roger Wells
On Fri, 2025-04-11 at 15:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Check in the firefox General settings to see if it's the default browser.
Wouldn't this be a Thunderbird setting? For what to do with links clicked on in one of its email?
On 4/12/25 1:23 AM, Tim via users wrote:
On Fri, 2025-04-11 at 15:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Check in the firefox General settings to see if it's the default browser.
Wouldn't this be a Thunderbird setting? For what to do with links clicked on in one of its email?
Thunderbird should be using the system settings.
Assuming you're using Gnome, check in Settings->Apps->Default apps. If it says Firefox for Web, then try switching it to something else, then back to Firefox and see if that helps. Also make sure you don't have a firefox-wayland package still hanging around.
Tim:
Wouldn't this be a Thunderbird setting? For what to do with links clicked on in one of its email?
Samuel Sieb:
Thunderbird should be using the system settings.
I don't have a current version of Thunderbird to try right now, but I seem recall it had a "what do you want to do?" kind of thing that had some internal choices before handing it over.
Various mail programs had options for you for clicking on links within the program: Open in this browser, open in that browser, directly save a file, and use system default was one of the choices.
On Sun, 2025-04-13 at 05:36 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
Tim:
Wouldn't this be a Thunderbird setting? For what to do with links clicked on in one of its email?
Samuel Sieb:
Thunderbird should be using the system settings.
I don't have a current version of Thunderbird to try right now, but I seem recall it had a "what do you want to do?" kind of thing that had some internal choices before handing it over.
Various mail programs had options for you for clicking on links within the program: Open in this browser, open in that browser, directly save a file, and use system default was one of the choices.
The "canonical" way is to use xdg-settings, e.g.:
$ xdg-settings --list Known properties: default-url-scheme-handler Default handler for URL scheme default-web-browser Default web browser $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser preferred-web-browser.desktop $ locate preferred-web-browser.desktop /home/poc/.local/share/applications/preferred-web-browser.desktop $ cat /home/poc/.local/share/applications/preferred-web-browser.desktop
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Firefox Web Browser etc. etc.
See 'xdg-settings help' for more options.
Note that you probably need to set both default-web-browser and default-url-scheme-handler. You probably have to log out and in again to have this take effect, but I don't remember.
poc
On 4/12/25 4:30 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/11/25 3:35 PM, Roger Wells via users wrote:
System is f41, fully updated. Desktop is GNOME PC is Lenovo Thinkpad X280. After an update a week or two ago clicking on a link in a thunderbird email stopped working.
Do links work from other apps? e.g. the terminal.
Yes. I tried a link in a pdf document while in the Document Viewer, no problem. thanks
*From:* Roger Wells via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org
*Sent:* Saturday, 12 April 2025 at 08:35 UTC+10
*To:* Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org
*Cc:* Roger Wells roger.k.wells@alum.mit.edu
*Subject:* thunderbird/browser problem
Hi, System is f41, fully updated. Desktop is GNOME PC is Lenovo Thinkpad X280. After an update a week or two ago clicking on a link in a thunderbird email stopped working. An update today installed a new thunderbird, 128.9.0esr (64-bit) and this situation persists. The browser is firefox but at one point in the past it was firefox-wayland I think. I can right click and copy the link and then paste it into firefox already running (acceptable work around) But I would like to get it working as expected, launch firefox or open a window in one already running. Any suggestions are welcome, TIA, Roger Wells
Hi Roger, I'm running the Daily version of upstream Thunderbird and Nightly version of upstream firefox both of which are updated daily. When I click on a url link in a mail the link launches in firefox which is the default browser, although I'm running KDE in F41. When right-clicking on the link in the mail does the popup include the option "Open in Browser"? I'm not sure where to find this in Gnome, but you may want to check what the default settings for mimetypes to see what is set for the mimetype associated with the link you are clicking on, an update may have changed that.
regards, Steve
On 4/13/25 6:25 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
*From:* Roger Wells via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org
*Sent:* Saturday, 12 April 2025 at 08:35 UTC+10
*To:* Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org
*Cc:* Roger Wells roger.k.wells@alum.mit.edu
*Subject:* thunderbird/browser problem
Hi, System is f41, fully updated. Desktop is GNOME PC is Lenovo Thinkpad X280. After an update a week or two ago clicking on a link in a thunderbird email stopped working. An update today installed a new thunderbird, 128.9.0esr (64-bit) and this situation persists. The browser is firefox but at one point in the past it was firefox-wayland I think. I can right click and copy the link and then paste it into firefox already running (acceptable work around) But I would like to get it working as expected, launch firefox or open a window in one already running. Any suggestions are welcome, TIA, Roger Wells
Hi Roger, I'm running the Daily version of upstream Thunderbird and Nightly version of upstream firefox both of which are updated daily. When I click on a url link in a mail the link launches in firefox which is the default browser, although I'm running KDE in F41. When right-clicking on the link in the mail does the popup include the option "Open in Browser"? I'm not sure where to find this in Gnome, but you may want to check what the default settings for mimetypes to see what is set for the mimetype associated with the link you are clicking on, an update may have changed that.
regards, Steve
thanks, I'll report back what I learn rkw
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