For anyone using Thunderbird

[shep]

I foolishly updated Thunderbird yesterday to the offered 5.01b build. I have never had any issues with new builds from Mozilla but this time I got a Lulu...namely that imbedded links in mails will not open the browser (any browser). I assume this is a bug and will be sorted in time but if anyone else has encountered this I would appreciate confirmation. Actually this sucks bigtime. And what's worse is that I can't roll back to a previous version.Thanks
I tried installing another version and the problem is the same. Very odd.

[richidoo]

My Thunderbird client says version 3.1.10.  Then under that it says:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10

Since you say ver 5.01 maybe you have upgraded your browser, not your email client (or both?) Firefox has a version 5 beta now, and it has some compatibility issues with previous plugins stable under ver 4.
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/05/21/firefox-5-compatibility-bump/

Try setting default browser to something other than Firefox to see if email links work again.  I use Chrome and my links work fine from emails in Thunderbird 3.1.10.

[shep]

Both firefox and Thunderbird are the latest versions and I suspect you're right. I'll try Chrome and see what happens.
Nada. I found that there are no plugins in the data base whatsoever so obviously it can't do anything other than recieve and send mail. This is totally weird. Obviously I shouldn' have updated to this beta build 

[richidoo]

Did you get this fixed shep?

My Thunderbird is asking for an upgrade to ver 5.0 (release version) Should I do it?
Thanks
Rich

[djdube525]

Shep,

If you decide to roll back to an earlier version, this may be helpful.

Here's a repository of older versions of Thunderbird.

Dave