Email links don't launch browser

After the new version of Firefox wouldn't work, I went back to the old version. Now internet links in my email will not launch the browser. The links will work only if Firefox is already open. Firefox is my default browser. What else do I need to do?
Thanks

Thank you for the suggestion. I tried and I may not be doing it properly, but it didn't solve the problem. I think I deleted the new version and I changed the default to Safari which worked with the email links, then changed back to Firefox and it wouldn't work.

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