Hi Andreas,

That seemed to have fixed it!

Is this problem related to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH/PATH enviroment settings ?

Would upgrading thunderbird fix this ?

Is this something that should be passed along to the TUV ?

Thanks,
--Chris
Andreas Nowack wrote:
> 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
> ## Copyright (C) 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami@redha....
> ...

-- 
Chris Hunter
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