Re: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 doesn't launch firefox?

Hank Zoeller wrote:
Thanks, Dave but no joy. I've created all three of those entries and set all three to /usr/bin/firefox and there was no change in behavior. And, /usr/bin/firefox from a terminal session does launch the browser. Thunderbird still can't seem to launch firefox.

Start up TB, use pgrep to see what its pid is. Use truss -p <pid> in a terminal window to attach to it and see what it does when you click on a link. You will presumably see some attempts at exec-ing the wrong browser. In fact you might want -texec to truss as a filter if there's too much data.

If you have a system or login environment where the combo does work, compare the two via truss.

I have not debugged (or used) TB or FF on Solaris myself. This is just how I'd go about diagnosing.

AS
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