Open in Iceweasel URLs in Icedove emails -- how?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Before Wheezy clicking on a URL in an icedove email would cause the URL to open in iceweasel. With Wheezy and Jessie I can no longer do so. Now I have to copy the URL from the email, open iceweasel and then enter it myself in the iceweasel address line. In one computer I have Wheezy, TDE 14.0.2, icedove 38.4.0 and iceweasel 38.5.0. Update-alternatives --config x-www-browser points to iceweasel %u as the default. In addition file ~/mozilla/icedove/9vgk89rr.default/user.js contains the following two lines: user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "iceweasel %u"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "iceweasel %u") Removing the ‘%u’ where I had it has no effect; so I kept them. I also ran in my user the command xdg-mime default iceweasel.desktop x-scheme-handler/http \ x-scheme-handler/https also to no effect. Am I missing something else required to open URLs in icedove emails automatically in iceweasel? I have the same problem with another computer with Jessie instead of Wheezy, but I do not have access to that one at this time. Compliments of the season and thanks in advance for any help provided, Ken Heard