Thanks, creating a new profile did it! pretty frustrating that we don't know what specific option did the mess up. Maybe what caused this is that the profile was the same i used with icedove (debian port of thunderbird)
bye. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > Laurent lejeune wrote: > >> i've checked that those entries are set to my firefox path >> (/usr/bin/firefox). The thing is , once again, that thunderbird does it's >> job of launching firefox, but the page that opens is a *downloaded *version >> such as >> file:///tmp/blabla.html >> where i would like it to open the url. >> > > That's not how it is supposed to be though. I have the same settings, and > Firefox opens the URL correctly. Perhaps try with a new and clean > Thunderbird profile. > > >