[Users] Firefox change causes problems with opening links

[Dave Howorth]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 08:18:29 -0600
Michael Hughes <claws-mail_user at thehugheslogcabin.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 14:08:39 +0100
> "Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)" <rol at witbe.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Michael,
> > 
> > On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 06:59:01 -0600
> > Michael Hughes <claws-mail_user at thehugheslogcabin.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > I just updated my Firefox to 45.6.0 and when clicking on links in
> > > emails the link wouldn't open.  Did a little Googling and found
> > > that they have removed the -remote option.  I'm sure most of you
> > > know this by now, I'm a little behind on updating Firefox.  
> > 
> > I'm using Firefox 50.1.0 and I have no problem opening links by
> > clicking them...
> > 
> > Settings are :
> > 
> > Preferences > Message view > External program 
> >   Don't select "Use system default..." 
> >   and set Web browser to: firefox '%' 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Paul
> 
> Paul,
> I was able to get it to work by removing the -remote command line
> option and removing the openurl that was used with it.  This was more
> or less a FYI for people that might still have the -remote option in
> the command line for opening URLs with Firefox.

Sorry, I haven't checked recently but I use -no-remote all the time
without problem (FF 50.1.0) and I believe the reason I do that is that
-remote is the default, so no reason to use it? It's been like that for
years AFAIK.