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Re: strnge betterbird issue

From	Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject	Re: strnge betterbird issue
Date	2026-05-17 16:28 +0200
Organization	Tschorkauer Zwetschgen-Pressen-Museum
Message-ID	<6A09D076.2060501@backwurst.de> (permalink)
References	<10ucimn$1nhhg$1@dont-email.me>

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Bluto Hogswart wrote:
> When I click on a hyperlink in a email, Betterbird 140.10.1esr-bb22 (64-
> bit) will not open the link at all. I'm using LMDE7 and I have set the 
> default browser as Firefox in the preferred applications in the LMDE7 
> settings menu. I must be missing a step here but I cannot figure out what 
> I'm doing wrong. Just throwing this out here in case anyone elese is 
> having this issue. I'm running Betterbird Flatpak if that makes any 
> difference.

IIRC Flatpaks are running in a sandbox by default. So i wouldn't be
surprised if Betterbird can't pass on a hyperlink to any browser.

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strnge betterbird issue Bluto Hogswart <blutohogswart@mouse-potato.com> - 2026-05-17 14:17 +0000
  Re: strnge betterbird issue Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2026-05-17 16:28 +0200
  Re: strnge betterbird issue Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-17 14:08 -0400
  Re: strnge betterbird issue Jörg Knobloch <jorgk@jorgk.com> - 2026-05-17 21:19 +0200
  Re: strnge betterbird issue T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-17 12:43 -0700
    Re: strnge betterbird issue Jörg Knobloch <jorgk@jorgk.com> - 2026-05-18 00:41 +0200
      Re: strnge betterbird issue T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-17 16:53 -0700
        Re: strnge betterbird issue Jörg Knobloch <jorgk@jorgk.com> - 2026-05-18 10:14 +0200

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