1) If Firefox is not running and I click the Firefox icon in the Panel, Firefox starts up and does not ask me to make it the default browser.
2) If Firefox is NOT running, and I click a link in an email, Firefox opens, but asks me to make it the default browser. As mentioned above, it is ALREADY the default browser.
3) If Firefox is still running and I click another link in an email nothing happens; Firefox stays running, but no new tabs are opened.
4) If I shut down Firefox, and then restart it, it asks me to make it the default web browser. If I click "Yes", then tabs open that correspond to the links that I clicked in the emails previously.
I executed the following command in a terminal:
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Bob@Warthog:~
$ su
Password:
root@Warthog:/home/Bob# update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 3 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
0 /usr/bin/firefox 100 auto mode
* 1 /usr/bin/firefox 100 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/mx-viewer 20 manual mode
3 /usr/bin/waterfox 40 manual mode
Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:
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System: Host: Warthog Kernel: 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.3_x64 Continuum Apr 7 2019
base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: B150M-A D3 v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter>
UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 0212 date: 07/10/2015
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-6100 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S
rev: 3 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 29568
Speed: 899 MHz min/max: 800/3700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 899 2: 1250 3: 1277
4: 1235
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.6
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-1-amd64
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 05:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 698.65 GiB used: 36.53 GiB (5.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AZRX-00A3KB0 size: 465.76 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 226.23 GiB used: 9.90 GiB (4.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix/stretch stretch main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info: Processes: 193 Uptime: 1h 58m Memory: 15.55 GiB used: 1.03 GiB (6.6%) Init: SysVinit
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.33
Incidentally, my laptop computer which is also running MX Linux 18, has this same problem.
My desktop is using the following software versions:
T-Bird 60.6.1
Firefox 67.0.2
Waterfox 56.2.10.1
I hope that someone can provide some assistance in finding a solution to this frustrating problem.
Thanks in advance...!!!