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Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy



On 07/31/2012 12:01 PM, Whit Hansell wrote:
Gunter
Thanks for the reply but I checked to see if anything you mentioned was
even possible and it came out "I don't got none of that stuff."<G>


On 07/31/2012 07:17 AM, chymian wrote:

Just checking to see if others are having the same problem.


yes indeed.
I had 2 mailthreats about this on the debian-user-german.

1. icedove does not open external links.
it opened the browser, but did not handover the URL.
I had to got to the KDE systemsettings and manually change the file
association (program which is called) entry to

iceweasel %u
(or x-www-browser %u, setting up the system alternatives to iceweasel.)

for all http/https.
I checked my file associations and could not find anything about this in
that system settings setup.  Hunted all over.  Nothing.

2. I changed in the .icedove/<profile>/prefs.js

???  On my working wheezy icedove
wtopa@dj:~$ ls .icedove/profile
ls: cannot access .icedove/profile: No such file or directory
but
wtopa@dj:~$ ls .icedove/prefs.js
.icedove/prefs.js*

Might that be your problem ??

HTH

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.http", true);

to true.
Checked my prefs.js file and it has no "network." anything listed for
some reason.  Went to the about:config file in iceweasel and could not
find anything that looked like it might help.  If there is the same type
of setup in icedove I have no idea yet how to access it.

while callening external links does work now, it had a major impact on
beeing able to add new accounts to ID.
while checking a new imap/smtp server, a link opened in iceweasel,
trying to get info about the mail-server. in this case, I used
self-signed certificates on my dovcot-server and STARTTLS.

switching this value back to "false", I can add new mailservers, but not
open external links.

for the time being, I have to choose, which misbehaviour I can live with
at the moment.
Well, I appreciate your input and yes, I agree, it's one or the other in
your case and I appreciate your reply to let  me know what you've found.
It has given me at least an idea that maybe I can do something but
really expect it to be corrected by bug fixes in the end.  Or at least I
hope so.

my system:
wheezy,amd64
KDE 4.8.4
iceweasel  10.0.6esr-1
icedove     10.0.5-1

günter

My system is:
Wheezy. amd64
KDE 4.8.4
Iceweasel 10.0.6
Icedove 10.0.5

Do appreciate your comments and reply.
Cheers.
Whit




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