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Lennie

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 146

[Solved] Thunderbird can't open link in Firefox after update

Today there were updates for Thunderbird and Firefox (and a few other). After that Thunderbird can't open links with Firefox. If I click on a link nothing happen. I started Thunderbird from terminal, and when I clicked on a link I got this message:

** (thunderbird-bin:6130): WARNING **: Could not launch default application for URI: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/firefox-7.0/firefox" (No such file or directory)

I checked /usr/lib and the folder for Firefox was directly under it, no folder "firefox-version" in between. I guess one must change the path somewhere for Thunderbird to find Firefox. Where to change that? I have looked both in the menus in Thunderbird, and in the Thunderbird folders in my home and in /usr/lib, but I  don't see the path to Firefox anywhere.

Last edited by Lennie (2011-11-10 08:51:39)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [Solved] Thunderbird can't open link in Firefox after update

I checked /usr/lib and the folder for Firefox was directly under it, no folder "firefox-version" in between.

That's right: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 22051.html
Unfortunately I have no idea what needs fixing. Have you tried to reboot?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: [Solved] Thunderbird can't open link in Firefox after update

this happens when you hardcode the path in thunderbird configuration.

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Lennie

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 146

Re: [Solved] Thunderbird can't open link in Firefox after update

So this mean there's nothing to do until there is a new upgrade that fix this? (Or downgrade both thunderbird and firefox, or change either browser or mailprogram...)

@karol: Yes, I rebooted, there was an upgrade for the kernel too.

Edit: Solved by downgrading Thunderbird + Firefox.

Last edited by Lennie (2011-11-10 08:51:00)