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Links in emails don't open properly in browser

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Clicking on a weblink in an email will open a new instance of Firefox, and bring me to my homepage. It should open a page in an existing instance, and open the intended webpage, not my homepage. I might have made a change in preferences that causes this behavior, but I'm not sure.

Thunderbird Linux 102.11.0 Firefox Linux 113.0.2 Linux Mint 21.1

Clicking on a weblink in an email will open a new instance of Firefox, and bring me to my homepage. It should open a page in an existing instance, and open the intended webpage, not my homepage. I might have made a change in preferences that causes this behavior, but I'm not sure. Thunderbird Linux 102.11.0 Firefox Linux 113.0.2 Linux Mint 21.1

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Config, not preferences.

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General information here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/hyperlinks-in-messages-not-working

On the whole Linux users are few and far between on this forum. Possible because well in excess of 95% of Thunderbird users are on windows. That you "think" you might have changed a settings is also going to put of folk from offering to help.

Finally most Linus distributions of Thunderbird are not built y the project but by the distribution and frequently those builds operate in subtly different ways. Depending on the view of the distribution maintainers. It will almost certainly not update the same way for instance.

Generally in Linux it is best to make a first approach in the distributions support forums where other that are familiar with the idiosyncrasy of that particular distribution are to be found.

Generally speaking Thunderbird passes off a URL to the operating system to be handled but the default handler. That the handler is dropping the url apparently sounds like am issue in your distribution.

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Okay, thanks for taking the time to reply. I have done everything suggested in the provided link, to no avail, so I will go ahead and find the proper Linux forum for help.

Modified by David

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Setting the mail client used by Firefox In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Preferences. In the General panel, go to the Applications section. Search for the Content Type mailto and select it. Click on the Action column in the mailto row to change the action. Close the Settings page.


Regards, Diana