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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