| Thunderbird doesn't use xdg-open, which means it doesn't open links with Chrome | |||||||||||
| Reported by luckysha...@gmail.com, Feb 18 2010 | Back to list | ||||||||||
Chrome Version (from the about:version page): 5.0.307.9 (Official Build 39052) beta Is this the most recent version: Yes OS + version: Fedora 12 CPU architecture (32-bit / 64-bit): 64 Bit Window manager: Nautilus URLs (if relevant): Behavior in Linux Firefox: Doing the same under Firefox works perfectly fine.New tabs open up from links. Behavior in Windows Chrome (if you have access to it): N-A- What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Set Google chrome as the default browser. 2. open any link from Thunderbird. What happens instead? Clicking the links[URl] under Thunderbird 3 does not open the specified URL under Google Chrome, it just opens up a new session of Chrome with home page loaded. The issue was also seen under Thunderbird 2 but was later on solved [http://tinyurl.com/yawfk38] , doing this under Thunderbird 3 does not help. Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot and backtrace if possible. To make things work fine, we need to set "Google Chrome" instead of "Custom"[as shown in attachment] as the browser under "System -> Preferred Applications -> Web Browsers" Though the command under "Custom" calls Chrome, but its not capable of opening of new tabs.
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tony@chromium.org,
Feb 23 2010
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Feb 23 2010
What Linux distro are you running?
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Feb 23 2010
I'm with Fedora 12 Kernel : 2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64
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Feb 23 2010
Same problem here, also on Fedora 12.
# rpm --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}\n" -q thunderbird google-chrome-beta firefox control-
center kdebase
thunderbird-3.0.1
google-chrome-beta-5.0.307.9
firefox-3.5.6
control-center-2.28.1
kdebase-4.3.5
My primary desktop is KDE so I have included the KDE version number as well.
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Feb 24 2010
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Feb 25 2010
I think this is a dup of the "can't open urls via command line" bug, which I haven't yet looked into.
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Feb 25 2010
What happens when you run: xdg-open http://www.google.com from the command line?
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Feb 25 2010
xdg-open works fine. It seems like this is a Thunderbird issue, not a Chromium issue.
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Feb 25 2010
One thing to note... xdg-open on Fedora runs different programs depending on the desktop environment. Since I'm running KDE, xdg-open runs kfmclient.
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Feb 26 2010
running the command 'xdg-open http://www.google.com' opens up chrome with this URL if it was not running. Running the command with chrome running open the URL in a new tab. This thing needs to be incorporated in thunderbird i guess..
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Feb 26 2010
Could you go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Config Editor and tell us what the value of this entry is: network.protocol-handler.app.http ?
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Feb 26 2010
following is the result in TB config network.protocol-handler.app.http;/usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/open-browser.sh network.protocol-handler.app.https;/usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/open-browser.sh
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Feb 26 2010
On my machine those two values are at their defaults (i.e. non-existent). I have tried setting those values to the chrome binary, to a shell script that (successfully) opens chrome, and to xdg-open. Nothing works -- which seems to imply that Thunderbird ignores those settings. It certainly seems like a Thunderbird problem.
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Mar 22 2010
I wonder why thunderbird doesn't use xdg-open. It seems this would break associations in other desktop apps on systems like Ubuntu.
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Mar 22 2010
According to this bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389732 it appears that in Thunderbird 3 the protocol handlers are ignored in favor of the settings in the "Attachment" preferences. Indeed, once I set the http and https "content types" to xdg-open, Thunderbird correctly opened http and https links in Chrome.
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Jan 26 2011
Deprecating HelpWanted label.
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Feb 24 2011
Not sure this is relevant, but thought I'd add it. I was experiencing this same issue and fixed it as described above (System -> Preferred Applications -> Web Browsers") BUT I'm running KDE. I happened to have Gnome also installed, but am running KDE. So, it seems to ignore the KDE default browser setting OR perhaps (since I installed the Gnome libraries after having KDE installed) installing Gnome changed the default browser that xdg-open uses?
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Mar 23 2011
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Mar 24 2011
When using GNOME, chromium sets the default handlers in gconf so there's no problem. But in KDE, chromium only modifies KDE related RC files and does not touch gconf so all gconf based applications running on a KDE environment will suffer from this problem. I think that chromium should set itself as the default browser in many ways as possible to avoid such problems.
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Mar 24 2011
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Mar 28 2011
Lei, what do you think of comment #19?
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Apr 9 2011
I don't have any objects to that idea. Mike WDYT?
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May 19 2011
Oh hey, just noticed this now. Hmm. I could make a case either way here. I think to some extent the problem will actually go away by itself in the not too distant future since both GNOME and KDE are migrating towards a common (XDG-specified!) way of storing these settings. A lot of the GNOME 3 changes have been moving it in that direction. Maybe we just wait it out.
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Jun 11 2012
(Un-ccing myself from bugs.)
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Aug 25 2015
No activity on this issue in 3 years, auto-archiving.
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Sep 23 2015
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