On 26/12/13 13:53, ken wrote: > On 12/25/2013 09:09 PM Phil Dobbin wrote: >> On 25/12/13 18:08, ken wrote: >> >>> This worked fine for years until I updated firefox and thunderbird >>> recently. Now, however, when I click on a link in an email in >>> thunderbird, rather than open the indicated webpage in firefox, nothing >>> at all happens. >>> >>> network.protocol-handler.app.http in tbird's about:config specifies the >>> executable /usr/lib/thunderbird/open-browser.sh and running the latter >>> at the CLI with a URL as an arg does work as expected: the spec'd URL is >>> loaded into firefox. So I suspect a bug in tbird. >>> >>> Anyone else having this problem? >> >> I'm having a problem with Thunderbird's links but not quite the same. I >> click on a link in a email & it actually loads it in Chrome but then it >> freezes the whole machine. I can launch a terminal via Ctrl-Alt-F2 but >> can't get a prompt in order to actually do anything. >> >> My only recourse is a hard reboot via the mains plug. >> >> This has happened for the last few updates. If you get any joy from the >> Thunderbird people, please let me know. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Phil. >> > > In the reading I did trying to resolve my issue, I ran across a few > conversations about your situation. Because it had to do with chrome > and so not my situation at all, I don't remember the details, just that > the chrome install might have greedily set some system variable which it > shouldn't have and that this screwed up some things. Google for it and > you should find others' experiences and perhaps also somebody's solution.
Thanks, Ken. It's also happening now with Firefox as well (in fact, Firefox is virtually unusable) so I suspect there is something happening with either this machine or the OS. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using Arch Linux, CentOS 6.5, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora 19 & 20, OS X Snow Leopard & Tiger, Ubuntu Quantal, Raring & Saucy GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
