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Hi all,

In my new instal of magiea 4 x86-64 I have added Thunderbird 24.4.0 (from the repositories) to work alongside the standard Firefox. 24.4.0. I ported my Thunderbird profile from a previous Debian installation of 24.4.0. All seems OK except for a failure of hyperlinks in Thunderbird emails being able to call Firefox when called.

I have used the Mozilla help system to check out my set up.

Firefox is the default Browser.
Thunderbird: Edit>Preferences>Attachments>HTTP is set correctly
Thunderbird: Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Config Editor>in About:Config network.protocol-handler.external-default = default boolean true
KDE System Settings> File Associations>Text>HTML Firefox is the choice at the top of the list
KDE System Settings> Default Applications> Web Browser> Default Component = Firefox
KDE System Settings> Default Applications> Email Client> Default Component = thunderbird %u
The File user.js in my Thunderbird profile contains:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox");

Nothing seems wrong so I am wondering if a reinstall will be required after backing up my profile.

I can not find any reports of this problem on the Forum but wonder if ayone has experienced it and could offer suggestions?

Thebunyip wrote:The File user.js in my Thunderbird profile contains:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox");

Those are ignored since a long time, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550755#c1
You may also want to look at https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2051

Can you please show the output of

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echo $BROWSER
xdg-settings --list
cat ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

and please try what happens when you run

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xdg-open "https://forums.mageia.org"

Also, you may need to remove mimetypes.rdf from your Thunderbird profile, best rename / move it away to test if it helps.

Hi doktor5000,

Thank you for your fast response. I hope what follows will help unravel my mystery.

You asked...

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echo $BROWSER
xdg-settings --list
cat ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

Each line produced this output....

[peter@localhost ~]$ echo $BROWSER
/usr/bin/www-browser

[peter@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings --list
Known properties:
default-url-scheme-handler Default handler for URL scheme
default-web-browser Default web browser

[peter@localhost ~]$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
cat: /home/peter/.local/share/applications/defaults.list: No such file or directory

NOTE: The directory exists but there is no 'defaults.list' file. The directory contains mimeapps.list and thunderbird-2.desktop

You also asked that I try ...

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xdg-open "https://forums.mageia.org"

The result launched Firefox and landed on the Forums page. I hope that is good news.

As suggested I have looked at

mimetypes.rdf

and renamed it mimetypes.rdf.bak The action did not appear to have had any effect.

I hope this will enable you to make a suggestion that will fix my problem.

Thanks again for the fast support.

Please show the output of

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cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
xdg-settings get default-web-browser
xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
xdg-mime query default text/html

You may also want to check http://www.kevinlocke.name/bits/2012/07 ... ser-linux/ for more background infromation

Hi doktor5000,

You asked for...

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cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
xdg-settings get default-web-browser
xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
xdg-mime query default text/html

The results are...

[peter@localhost ~]$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
[Added Associations]
text/html=firefox.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_html.desktop;kde4-kwrite.desktop;libreoffice-writer.desktop;kde4-okularApplication_txt.desktop;
application/turboprint-key=turboprint-control.desktop

[Default Applications]
application/turboprint-key=turboprint-control.desktop


[peter@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox

[peter@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler {NO OUTPUT}

[peter@localhost ~]$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http {NO OUTPUT}

[peter@localhost ~]$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https {NO OUTPUT}

[peter@localhost ~]$ xdg-mime query default text/html
firefox.desktop

I also read through the page

http://www.kevinlocke.name/bits/2012/07/18/thunderbird-default-browser-linux/

you linked to. The section on XDG MIME action (Thunderbird > ~4) caught my eye.

My mimeapps.list file at ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list does not contain any reference to x-scheme=handler. IF I edited it it would look like...

[Added Associations]
text/html=firefox.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_html.desktop;kde4-kwrite.desktop;libreoffice-writer.desktop;kde4-okularApplication_txt.desktop;
application/turboprint-key=turboprint-control.desktop

[Default Applications]
application/turboprint-key=turboprint-control.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop

Would that be worth trying or do I need to address the missing xdg-.........-scheme-handler outputs first?

Hi doktor5000,

Now I am confused. My problem has disappeared. Clicking Links in a Thunderbird email now launches Firefox and lands on the target

I have read through the man pages for xdg-settings and xdg-mime and have been left none the wiser. I cannot see how the three commands did not produce an output or even an error message. But as that was the last action that could have impacted my problem I suspect that it somehow solved it. A couple of system shut downs and relaunches seems to indicate that the fix is permanent.

So I guess I need to say thank you even if I cannot figure out how I have been helped. It looks as if my chances of becoming comfortable with the command line may be receding even further away.

Thank you for the patient and clear helpful instructions just the same.

No problem. You didn't edit mimeapps.list in any way?

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks

For what it's worth, I've encountered a similar issue when switching from Firefox to Chromium. Only thing I did was to open systemsettings, and set chromium-browser as the default browser. This is not sufficient for e.g. opening links from Thunderbird. This is the state before:

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[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
[Added Associations]
application/vnd.VAR_VENDOR_NAME.VAR_PRODUCT_NAME-dxf=vlc.desktop;
application/x-bittorrent=transmission-gtk.desktop;miro.desktop;qBittorrent.desktop;
application/x-cd-image=vlc.desktop;
application/x-rar=vlc-6.desktop;vlc.desktop;kde4-ark.desktop;
inode/directory=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop;kde4-dolphin.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_dir.desktop;kde4-gwenview.desktop;
video/mp4=vlc-3.desktop;
video/mpeg=vlc-4.desktop;
video/x-ms-wmv=vlc-5.desktop;
video/x-msvideo=vlc-2.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/wuala=wuala.desktop;
[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
chromium-browser.desktop
[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler
[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
qupzilla.desktop
[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
qupzilla.desktop
[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ xdg-mime query default text/html
firefox.desktop
[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
qupzilla.desktop
[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$

What I've changed now:

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[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ xdg-mime default chromium-browser.desktop x-scheme-handler/https                                                                               
[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
chromium-browser.desktop

This works reproducably, I can switch back and forth by this.

Hello Doktor,
I have Mageia 5 with Thunderbird and my problem is, when clicking on a link in Thunderbird, Firefox actually opens up but stack on its default home page (in my case: set to Google), the link was ignored.
(i) I have run the tests suggested by Doktor, and I had almost the same output as got by Thebunyip (who initiated this topic), except this:

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xdg-open "https://forums.mageia.org"

which lunches Firefox on a curious local page:

file:///var/tmp/kdecache-jianfeng/krun/26789_0_

(ii) I have also the last commands you suggested:

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xdg-mime default chromium-browser.desktop x-scheme-handler/https

with "firefox.desktop" replacing your "chromium-browser.desktop".
The same problem remains.

So what's wrong in my case?? Thank you for help.

What desktop environment do you use, maybe KDE? I think I know that issue with /var/tmp/kdecache-*/krun/ ...
Please post the output for all of the commands listed at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/User:Doktor5 ... lt_browser

Thank you for your reply!

Yes I'm using KDE 4.14.5 with Mageia 5.

Outputs of commands in your "to check default browser" section are:

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[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop
[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http
[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler https
[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ for i in application/x-extension-html application/x-extension-shtml application/x-extension-xhtml application/xhtml+xml text/html; do
>    xdg-mime query default $i
>  done
firefox.desktop
firefox.desktop


and for
" 1. for KDE to double-check":

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[jianfeng@localhost ~]$  kreadconfig --group General --key BrowserApplication
firefox.desktop


Please set them all to firefox, except for the last one which should be left empty. Run all commands as normal user

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browser="firefox.desktop"
 xdg-settings set default-web-browser $browser
 xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler http $browser
 xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler https $browser
 xdg-mime default $browser x-scheme-handler/http
 xdg-mime default $browser x-scheme-handler/https
 xdg-mime default $browser x-scheme-handler/about
 for i in application/x-extension-html application/x-extension-shtml application/x-extension-xhtml application/xhtml+xml text/html; do
   xdg-mime default $browser $i
 done
kwriteconfig --group General --key BrowserApplication ""

[ Sorry for my delayed reply as Iwas in Mainland China and no access to Mageia forum is granted! Just as Google being kicked out!! ]

So I have run these setting commands in a terminal as a normal user in a terminal; verified that all the checkcing commands above
Outputs of commands in your "to check default browser" section
and "1. for KDE to double-check":
return firefox.desktop now.

But nothing changes! While cliking on a link in Thunderbird, it opens Firefox on its default page.

Oh one thing has changed after all these commands:

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[jianfeng@localhost ~]$  kreadconfig --group General --key BrowserApplication



Previously, the output was: "firefox.desktop".

Hmm, please also show the output of

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gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command
gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp/command

If you run the following commands, which browser opens?

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xdg-open 'https://www.mageia.org'
kde-open 'https://www.mageia.org'
gnome-open 'https://www.mageia.org'
www-browser 'https://www.mageia.org'

Thanks for your continuing support.

So for your instructed commands:

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[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
/usr/local/firefox-6.0/firefox %s
[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command
/usr/local/firefox-6.0/firefox %s
[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp/command
/usr/local/firefox-6.0/firefox %s

and

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xdg-open 'https://www.mageia.org'
kde-open 'https://www.mageia.org'
www-browser 'https://www.mageia.org'

all give the same thing: Firsfix is open on a local file file:///var/tmp/kdecache-jianfeng/krun/28879_0_en
with a list of warnings:

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[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ kde-open 'https://www.mageia.org'
kioclient(32392) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12"                                                                                       
kioclient(32392) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(32392) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(32392) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(32392) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(32392) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(32392) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(32392) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(32392) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(32392) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroEnabled.12"


Is this the place of the torouble? Since my initial problem resemble to this: clickin gon a link within Thunderbird leads to an opening of Firefox on local file of type file:///var/tmp/kdecache-jianfeng/krun/26789_0_

Please run the following as normal user:

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

Then logout/login and try again. If it's still not working, please show again all the outputs requested in
viewtopic.php?p=57480#p57480

I should mention that my Mageia 5 is installed on a full new partition, but I copied my old home directory (running under Mageia 3); in particular, my
.ked4 directory should contain a lots of old configuration files... Can this influence on the present issue??

Otherwise, for your suggested actions:

Output of kbuildsycoca4 command:

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[jianfeng@localhost confs]$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(25308) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12"
kbuildsycoca4(25308) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12"
kbuildsycoca4(25308) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12"
kbuildsycoca4(25308) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12"
kbuildsycoca4(25308) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12"
kbuildsycoca4(25308) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12"
kbuildsycoca4(25308) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12"
kbuildsycoca4(25308) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12"
kbuildsycoca4(25308) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12"
kbuildsycoca4(25308) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroEnabled.12"

Then I logout/login, click on a link with Thunderbird. This time, Firxfox opens on its homepage (in my case, Google homepage), not anymore on a curious local file of type file://... etc. So still not working

Now outputs from those checking commands in [url]viewtopic.php?p=57480#p57480[/url] gives "firefox.deskop" everywhere, see:

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[jianfeng@localhost confs]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop
[jianfeng@localhost confs]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http
firefox.desktop
[jianfeng@localhost confs]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler https
firefox.desktop
[jianfeng@localhost confs]$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
firefox.desktop
[jianfeng@localhost confs]$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
firefox.desktop
[jianfeng@localhost confs]$ for i in application/x-extension-html application/x-extension-shtml application/x-extension-xhtml application/xhtml+xml text/html; do xdg-mime query default $i; done
firefox.desktop                                                                                                                                                                                   
firefox.desktop


So it now looks as it should look like when you want the systemwide firefox as default browser.

What confuses me is that you seemed to have already configured a firefox configured with some GNOME application problem that lives in /usr/local/bin,
which by default comes first in your PATH, hence it will win. But the firefox.desktop file you configured with all the mime settings lives in /usr/share/applications
and probably points to /usr/bin/firefox ...

mystere88 wrote:So for your instructed commands:

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[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
/usr/local/firefox-6.0/firefox %s
[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command
/usr/local/firefox-6.0/firefox %s
[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp/command
/usr/local/firefox-6.0/firefox %s

How did you define your own firefox for GNOME, do you happen to know? Even more so as it says firefox-6.0 which is ages old ...
I'd change that simply to firefox %s

Hi Doktor5000,

I did not know how these gnome defaults have been set.
Also I do not have any

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/usr/local/firefox-6.0/firefox

directory:

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[jianfeng@localhost ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/firefox-6.0
ls: cannot access /usr/local/firefox-6.0: No such file or directory
[jianfeng@localhost ~]$

This might come from an old configuration file.
So how can set correctly these default values, e.g.

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 /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command

to firefox %s as you suggested??

Many thanks again for your help.

mystere88 wrote:So how can set correctly these default values, e.g.

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 /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command

to firefox %s as you suggested??

First try this way:

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gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command --type string "xdg-open \"%s"\"
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command --type string "xdg-open \"%s"\"
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp/command --type string "xdg-open \"%s"\"

After setting the trois parameters/name, the result of test is as follows:

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[jianfeng@localhost aRech]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command
xdg-open "%s"
[jianfeng@localhost aRech]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
xdg-open "%s"
[jianfeng@localhost aRech]$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp/command
xdg-open "%s"
[jianfeng@local


Then I logged out and logged in, the output for the tests remain the same. But clicking a link, Firefox still opens
on its default page.

The default page opened by Firefox , in my case is google home page. However, the link shown there on the address line is
https://www.google.com.hk/?gws_rd=ssl
and not simply
http://www.google.com.hk/

Does this means something special??