Hi,
This security errata is now out.  I have tested it and it does open firefox 
when you click on a URL link.
At the present time, it's still getting pushed out on SL4 area's ... but it 
should be there in a couple hours.

Troy

Troy J Dawson wrote:
> It's already in bugzilla
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456193
> 
> And accourding to Comment #41
> "It's already in cvs and it's going to be released with the next thunderbird
> security update."
> 
> But I currently have no idea when that will be.  I hope it is soon.
> 
> Troy
> 
> 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....
>> ...
> 
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