[Solved] Thunderbird can't open link in Firefox after update

Today there were updates for Thunderbird and Firefox (and a few other). After that Thunderbird can't open links with Firefox. If I click on a link nothing happen. I started Thunderbird from terminal, and when I clicked on a link I got this message:
** (thunderbird-bin:6130): WARNING **: Could not launch default application for URI: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/firefox-7.0/firefox" (No such file or directory)
I checked /usr/lib and the folder for Firefox was directly under it, no folder "firefox-version" in between. I guess one must change the path somewhere for Thunderbird to find Firefox. Where to change that? I have looked both in the menus in Thunderbird, and in the Thunderbird folders in my home and in /usr/lib, but I don't see the path to Firefox anywhere.
Last edited by Lennie (2011-11-10 08:51:39)

Lennie wrote:I checked /usr/lib and the folder for Firefox was directly under it, no folder "firefox-version" in between.
That's right: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 22051.html
Unfortunately I have no idea what needs fixing. Have you tried to reboot?

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