Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser

[Alberto Fuentes <alberto.fuentes@qindel.com>]

On 05/02/12 08:20, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> On 20.01.2012 00:09, MRH wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After my recent update (Debian sid on amd64, icedove 8.0-2, iceweasel
> > 9.0.1-1) everytime I click a link in email it asks me to choose an
> > aplication to open the link with (Launch Application). I'm aware I can
> > choose Iceweasel and tick to always use it, but I think it should (and
> > did) use a global settings (ie x-www-browser, which is actually set to
> > iceweasel).
> >
> > How can I fix it? I checked update-alternatives (for x-www-browser, it's
> > OK),
> > icedove / config:
> > network.protocol-handler.app.http = x-www-browser
> >
> > What do I miss? Is it a bug?
>
> I was bitten by this bug too so I did some debugging and I think I found
> the culprit.
>
> Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658479#15
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
Awesome! thanks for the debugging!

greets!
aL