Double clicking links in Mail 4.5 fails to open in browser

Ths suddenly started today after updating Security and Safari.  I'm running 10.6.8 on a Mac Pro and using Mail and Firefox 12.0  When receiving a link in the body of an email a single or double click only achieves a darkening of the Mail window, but the action is NOT forwarded to the browser.

Maybe your choice of default web browser got deselected to "none" somehow???
Don't know if Firefox has this, but you can do this in Safari, and select Firefox as your default browser in Safari's preferences under the "General" panel.
Don't know if that'll fix it or if that's even the problem, but it's something you might check...
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