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suddenly I am unable to open a web page from a link in an email (eg notification from facebook) - usually have to unistall and then re-install but this is a nu

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without any changes i am aware of, firefox suddenly stops opening from links in emails (thunderbird). e.g. notifications from facebook. Usually when this occurs I un-install and then re-install firefox and that fixes the problem but of course it interrupts what I'm doing and takes time. Is there a known cause and fix for this failure to open?

without any changes i am aware of, firefox suddenly stops opening from links in emails (thunderbird). e.g. notifications from facebook. Usually when this occurs I un-install and then re-install firefox and that fixes the problem but of course it interrupts what I'm doing and takes time. Is there a known cause and fix for this failure to open?

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cor-el
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Make sure that Firefox is set as the default browser.

makara
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FF is the default browser