Thunderbird Opening Links

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Wed Sep 30 15:14:41 UTC 2015


On 09/30/2015 11:01 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> In a moment of insanity, I installed google-chrome on fedora21. The Chrome installation made chrome the default and changed the network-protocol handlers in Thunderbird to 'chrome'. I have since removed google-chrome and manually edited the entries in TB back to firefox. I think I have properly set firefox as the default browser.
>
> BUT, when I click on a link in an email in tbird, Nothing happens (even if firefox is open).
>
> Getting tired of copying link location, and pasting into the address bar.
>
> Can anyone assist? My google-fu produces nothing. 

What desktop are you using?  And what does

xdg-settings get default-web-browser

return?

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