Firefox wont open webpage when linked from another program

When linking from other programs, a new firefox window will open, but displaying a blank page instead of loading the page. I checked for firefox being the default web browser, but I cant figure out what other options may be important. It actually started happening when upgrading to Ubuntu Natty, did not happen when using ff 4.0.1 on maverick. Any Ideas? Thanks for the help.

First and foremost, please update Firefox to '''3.6.17''' by clicking '''Help'''| '''Check For Updates'''.
The reason for this is because there was a security breach at Comodo which is an SSL certificate provider recently whereby a number of fraudulent certificates were inadvertently issued. These allow a hacker to impersonate any site including online banking and the Firefox version you're running at the moment will not warn you that the site is a fake. The fraudulent certificates were blacklisted in v3.6.17 and beyond. 
See also: http://blogs.comodo.com/it-security/data-security/the-recent-ra-compromise/ 
As regards your problem, you may have a corrupt '''places.sqlite''' file.
Please see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite 
and [[Error loading web sites]]

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