Not a critical problem or anything, but if anyone knows offhand...

On one of my computers (running Debian testing) I read mail using
icedove. However, clicking a web link in an email fails to open the page
with iceape.

In icedove's about:config there's the line
"network.protocol-handler.app.http	default	string	x-www-browser"

x-www-browser is setup like so:
"lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2004-11-14 11:12 /usr/bin/x-www-browser -> \
/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-03-17 11:57 \
/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/iceape"

and if I watch processes in a terminal using something like
"while true ; do ps -f | egrep '(iceape|www)' | grep -v grep ; done"

I can see x-www-browser start, then /usr/lib/iceape/iceape-bin starts,
it runs for a couple seconds, then dies without opening any windows.

If I click a link in a terminal window the same startup routine happens,
but iceape starts successfully.

Weirdness. Thanks for any suggestions.

-Steve