Bug 196

Summary:	Thunderbird has no preinstalled settings to open http and https links
Product:	[ROSA-based products] ROSA Fresh	Reporter:	Denis Koryavov <denis.koryavov>
Component:	Packages from Main	Assignee:	ROSA Linux Bugs <bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	denis.silakov
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Marathon
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Platform:	---	ROSA Vulnerability identifier:
RPM Package:	mozilla-thunderbird-10.0.2-0.5-rosa.lts2012.0.x86_64	Upstream:

Description Denis Koryavov 2012-05-04 17:08:08 MSK

Description of problem:

Mozilla Thunderbird has no any preinstalled setting for opening http:// or https:// links. Thus, user should know, how to select firefox for this action (he will forced to type /usr/bin/firefox in the appropriated field). It is not very usable, and many users will have problems with this.  

How reproducible:
Aways.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install latest Mozilla Thunderbird. 
2. Set up any your email account. 
3. Read any mail in HTML with the hyperlink and try to click on it.

Comment 1 Denis Koryavov 2012-06-13 14:43:02 MSK

According to this comment http://bugs.rosalinux.ru/show_bug.cgi?id=180#c10, I suppose that rebuilding thunderbird with "--enable-gio" can help.

Comment 2 Denis Silakov 2012-06-19 12:52:40 MSK

This bug seems to have the same reason as bug #380 - Thunderbird uses gio, but we just don't have necessary associations in out shared-mime-info package.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 380 ***