Hi,

You should have got my mail that my problem was that I had "setenv 
MOZ_NO_REMOTE 1"
in my .cshrc .   Turning it off fixes my problem.

 > How do you show thunderbirds "about:config"

In thunderbird,  Edit-> Preferences -> Advanced-> General, and "Config 
"Editor" is the button
at the bottom.

Kin

Troy Dawson wrote:
> 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
>
> Hi,
> I have not been able to reproduce this.  I start with a thunderbird 
> 1.5, and a firefox 1.5.  I am able to click on links in thunderbird 
> and they open in firefox without any problem.  I then update the 
> firefox to 3.0.1, and everything still works.
> I'm also curious.  How do you show thunderbirds "about:config"
> You can always just go in and change the configurations by hand in the 
> text file, but I can't find the about:config in thunderbird nowdays.
> Troy
>