Home Forums Networks & Cross-Platform Networking Can't open links in Mail or Thunderbird: Chrome?

I have migrated from Mail to Thunderbird over the last several weeks. Have also loaded OpenPGP For reasons unknown (and I am not exactly sure when this happened) I can no longer open web links from either Mail (still being used for one Gmail address) and Thunderbird (now being used for most e-mail addresses). Thunderbird is configured for IMAP and Mail for POP. In Mail I get the message that "no associated application could be found". In Thunderbird I get a slight dimming of screen (as if it is shifting to browser) then nothing. Firefox is default browser for many years now.

I had added OpenPGP to both Mail and Thunderbird, but disabling it does not seem to help. Also, cannot Control-Click and "Open in browser" either. Only way to open is to copy paste manually....

The Error message in Thunderbird makes reference to Chrome, though I have not loaded Chrome in OSX.

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIExternalProtocolService.loadUrl]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: [url=chrome://communicator/content/contentAreaClick.js][url=chrome://communicator/content/contentAreaClick.js][url=chrome://communicator/content/contentAreaClick.js]chrome://communicator/content/contentAreaClick.js[/url][/url][/url] :: openLinkExternally :: line 188" data: no]

I do run Parallels and see from Sportlight that I seem to have 21 versions of Chrome in Parallel's application folder (none of which I consciously downloaded myself....), though the most recent Chrome update is from December 2011.

Any advice?

Running 10.6.8 on MacBook Pro. Have run Onyx (Permissions and Automatic routines, cleared caches....)

Have you checked to make sure Firefox is in fact your default browser? The messages you are getting seem to indicate that the computer thinks Chrome is your default browser.