Thunderbird does not open URLs in a browser. A bug?

Did a fresh install of Arch 0.8.
Thunderbird 2 came with it. On my workstation URLs within an email-body aren't opened in an external browser.
Neither in konqueror nor in Firefox. Is this a bug that I should report, or do you all have a working thunderbird?
thanks

Thank you, it works
Though I dropped TB now, using kmail instead, feels a lot snappier and looks better.

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