Hi,

I made use of the excuse to upgrade to SL 5.2 (from 5.1) which gets 
Thunderbird 2.0.x among hundreds
of other things.  But this didn't solve the problem.

At the end, I've realized that my .cshrc (which did no harm before) has 

setenv MOZ_NO_REMOTE 1

which causes Firefox 3.0.1 not want to start with the message reported. 

Turning it off would solve the problem.

Kin

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Kin Yip wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using SL 5.1 with Firefox 1.5.x  and Thunderbird
>> (thunderbird-1.5.0.12-12.el5) for a while (workingfine).
>> I could click a http link (for example) and start Firefox in a new tab
>> in the browser.
>>
>> After last night's yum update, Firefox 3.0.1 has replaced the old
>> Firefox 1.5.x .  I can use firefox without problem.
>> But now if I click a http link (say) when there is Firefox, it'd 
>> complain :
>>
>> Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window,
>> you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your 
>> system.
>>
>> If I close the Firefox, it'd start a new one.  But if I click another
>> http link, it'd make the same complaint and I have to close
>> Firefox (or I can copy and paste the link to Firefox).
>>
>> In thunderbird about:config,  network.protocol-handler.app.http has
>> pointed to "/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5.0.12/open-browser.sh"  and it had
>> worked fine before until  now Firefox 3.0.1 comes.
>>
>> I've tried to replace that open-browser.sh with firefox etc.   Nothing
>> works and the same error message persists.
>> ( I've stupidly deleted old profiles in firefox/thunderbird (as I'm
>> desperate) but of course they were not the problem. )
>>
>> It looks like to me that open-browser.sh in 1.5 Thunderbird is not
>> updated with Firefox 3.0.1 ...
>>
>> Any ideas and help ?
>>
>> Kin
>>
>
> Hi,
> I've been using thunderbird 2.0 from SL 5.2, and don't see that 
> problem.  I'll double check and see if it is a thunderbird 1.5 vs 
> thunderbird 2.0 problem.
> Troy