OpenOffice and Thunderbird

Some time ago (a few months maybe), Thunderbird stopped letting me open OpenOffice document types by double clicking the attachment.
Anyone know why this behavior changed and how to fix it? Obviously being able to open attachments by double clicking is very handy. I don't even know if it's Thunderbird's fault or Openoffice's fault at this point.
- P

Originally posted by: ns_dkerber.ns_WarrenRogersAssociates.com
In article <eo8e7o$8h4$[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
> I have recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu linux. It is simple as
> windows. All hardware detected correctly, except my tv-tuner.
Thanks! It looks like Ubuntu comes with most of the stuff I need
already on the image. Since you are an Eclipse user, is it safe to
assume that Eclipse runs ok on it as well?
Dave
>
> David Kerber wrote:
> > I'm coming from a Windows world, and am looking to set up a Linux
> > machine for evaluation. I would need to run Eclipse, Tomcat, Firefox,
> > Thunderbird, OpenOffice, and maybe Jajuk.
> >
> > What distro would you recommend for an experienced programmer/IT guy who
> > is a Linux newbie? I played just a little bit with Redhat several years
> > ago and got it running, but I couldn't find the apps I needed, so it
> > never really went anywhere; they seem to be available now.
> >
> > It will be running on relatively wimpy hardware, if that factors into
> > the answer.
> >
> > TIA!
>
Remove the ns_ from if replying by e-mail (but keep posts in the
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