[SOLVED] ff4: Thunderbid doesn't open email links in ff anymore

Hi guys,
I used to have thunderbird open links with firefox but after the today update to firefox 4 the links on Thunderbird emails aren't opened anymore with Firefox.
Basically, when I click on a link of thunderbird nothing happens..
Any idea?
Thanks,
Fabio Varesano
Last edited by fax8 (2011-03-24 11:30:30)

My system is updated. Sorry can't remove my thunderbird config.. 10 email addresses configured there and thousands of mails stored..
I made the grep, but filtered out the Mail and ImapMail folders which would otherwise generate hundreds of matches (I'm a web and ff theme developer so the world "firefox" matches many emails).
[fabio@gamma ~]$ grep firefox ~/.thunderbird/*.default -R | grep -v /Mail/ | grep -v /ImapMail/
grep: /home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/lock: No such file or directory
Binary file /home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/global-messages-db.sqlite matches
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/prefs.js:user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/lib/firefox-4.0/firefox");
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/prefs.js:user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/lib/firefox-4.0/firefox");
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/prefs.js:user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/lib/firefox-4.0/firefox");
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/extensions.rdf: NS1:homepageURL="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3497">
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/blocklist.xml: <emItem id="[email protected]">
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/blocklist.xml: <emItem id="[email protected]"/>
/home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/extensions/[email protected]/install.rdf: <em:homepageURL>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3497</em:homepageURL>
Binary file /home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/chrome/calendar.jar matches
Binary file /home/fabio/.thunderbird/js17qstd.default/training.dat matches

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