I just want to note that there could be other files read by the mailcap
function, such as /etc/mailcap. See "man mailcap".
I have no .mailcap and no url-viewers setting in .pinerc, but alpine will
open http/https URLs with Chrome for me. /etc/mailcap is non-empty on my
system.
Yours,
Mats
On 2025-01-05, 13:25 (+0100) Olaf Skibbe via Alpine-info <alpine-i...@u.was...:
> 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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