Hi Thomas,
You do not share too many informations, so it is difficult to point
out a possible reason for your problem. But anyways, I can tell you
what works for me. I use alpine and Firefox just like you seemingly
want it to work. The system is a Linux (Debian stable) with alpine
2.26.
A search in my .pinerc shows the following lines containing "url":
(Search command: $ grep -i url .pinerc)
Result:
==========
enable-msg-view-urls,
# List of programs to open Internet URLs (e.g. http or ftp references).
url-viewers=/usr/bin/firefox
==========
I do not know if the .mailcap could interfere with the alpine
configuration in regard of the URL viewer, but (for what it's worth) I
checked for this. My .mailcap does not contain anything related URLs
or http or https.
Nevertheless, there are entries containing lynx in /etc/mailcap and
lynx is installed.
Maybe this helps you finding the problem?
Olaf
On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 02:41, Thomas Gramstad via Alpine-info wrote:
In my Alpine config I have URL-viewer set to /usr/bin/firefox
in order to be able to click a link in an e-mail message and
have it opened in Firefox in an external window.
This used to work, but now it doesn't.
What happens now is that I'm asked to accept a cookie, I answer
Y, and then this repeats a few times. Then finally I get the
message that the app will not work unless I install Javascript,
and then nothing more happens.
I have tried a few times, and also used the ? option while
accepting cookies. According to the ? option, the app asking
for repeated cookie acceptance is Lynx. And yes, it does look
like a vague memory I have a few decades back of the Lynx web
browser.
So how can I make Firefox work as before, without being asked
about cookies, and without Javascript, and without Lynx?
Is there a way to unlynx Alpine?
Thomas Gramstad
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