Thunderbird Browser association lost after installing FF 3.6 on Jaunty

Thunderbird 3 was working fine until the upgrade. Then clicking links in emails just stopped working. I click, nothing happens. Eventually I figured out that the easy way (or the only way) to change the dead browser association is to try the links without FF 3.6 open. When I did that, Thunderbird asked what it should use to open the link, then I got to point it to the right thing. Not sure why, since I verified the default browser setting already, and FF 3.6 was from the Launchpad repository, not a version I downloaded directly from Mozilla...

Live a Ubuntu life: SCIM

I needed to use SCIM for a number of applications on Jaunty, including Firefox and aMSN. The problem is with apps that weren't installed from Ubuntu repositories. The supplied Firefox 3.0 works fine, but not 3.5 or 3.6 I downloaded from Mozilla. There's no Ubuntu version of aMSN for that matter. The problem lies with QT it seems, which SCIM needs to run with and be compatible with the QT used to compile the target apps.

I solved the aMSN piece with help from this Ubuntu community documentation, but Firefox just wouldn't work. Eventually I installed FF 3.5 and 3.6 from Launchpad repositories, and that brought those apps in line with SCIM. BTW, that also solves my Java plug-in issue with them.

Easy as pie - Flash plugin for Firefox on Ubuntu

It already is, if you just want it on the standard Firefox on the system. But what I needed was to have it on FF3.5 on Jaunty, which doesn't come by default. I have FF3.5 installed in my home directory. Turned out all I needed was to download the .tar.gz from Adobe, and put the .so file inside to the plugins directory. I was trying to symlink from the standard /usr/lib location to no avail.