Hi Christopher!

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Christopher Hunter wrote:

> Following the firefox upgrade for SL4. I no longer can click on 
> URL/hyperlinks in thunderbird. In the past, when I clicked on a URL in a 
> thunderbird message, it would open a firefox window to display the web page. 
> This does not seem to happen anymore.

I guess you are using Firefox 3.0 and Thunderbird 1.5.
The reason for the problem is a version conflict of a library used by Firefox 
and Thunderbird. If Thunderbird starts Firefox it uses its own LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
settings which result in a wrong library version for Firefox.

Thunderbird uses a script to start Firefox: 
/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5.0.12/open-browser.sh

A solution is to change LD_LIBRARY_PATH at the beginning of this script in 
order to have Firefox to look at the correct place for its library:

#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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Best regards,
   Andreas

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