Will not open email links, but will when closed?

Using MS Office 2011 for Mac: Outlook links will not open in Firefox even though Firefox is running in the background - clicking on the link brings Firefox to the forefront, but it doesn't actually do anything.
However, if I quit Firefox then the Outlook link will open? Firefox is my default browser.
Cheers,
Alan

sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox_old; sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-4.0 /usr/bin/firefox
installed this in terminal and it works now.

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