Please try the following workaround:
Completely close Thunderbird.
Edit the user.js file in you Thunderbird profile folder(by default should be
located at ~/.thunderbird/xxxxxx.default), it probably does not exist so create
the file.
Insert the following lines:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox");
Restart thunderbird and see if this is fixed.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880834
Title:
URLs in message body not opening in browser
Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
When a message contains URLs, thunderbird successfully identifies and
shows them as blue, underlined text. However, when they are clicked
on with the mouse, they do not launch a browser or even open a new tab
in an already open browser. I would expect that blue, underlined URLs
in the body of a message would open in the browser.
$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
Installed: 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
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