Thunderbird / Firefox / Linux: Error showing url: Failed to execute child process
PROBLEM
On Linux, you receive this error when trying to open up links from inside Thunderbird emails:
Error showing url: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5/firefox" (No such file or directory)
SOLUTION
The solution to this was fairly simple. Just create the link to firefox binary in the folder it was looking in for firefox
- cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5
- which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
- ln -s /usr/bin/firefox firefox
- ll
total 236
4669475 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2009-03-17 22:41 firefox -> /usr/bin/firefox*
4669742 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-12-27 20:02 updates/
4669550 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-03-17 22:41 ./
4456449 drwxr-xr-x 291 root root 225280 2009-02-27 04:07 ../ - #
This resolved the issue in Thunderbird and links could be launched from within emails.
Cheers!
Tom K.
