No connections to external sites (Hippiepay, etc.)

The Current version of SL client does not spawn a browser to connect to any external sites from within the SL world.

SL uses an helper script to launch external links.

The script is located in the main client directory, and it's named "launch_url.sh". It takes as argument the URL to open.

You could try by hand, launching it in a terminal from the Second Life client directory:

./launch_url.sh http://www.google.com

It tries various common browsers before giving up, and it's fairly intuitive if you want to modify it. If it can't launch an external browser, it complains about it.

Maybe you could start tracking your problem from here.

Thanks Katrina , I manually executed the launch_url.sh as you indicated and found that the script was trying to launch an odd browser resulting in:

/home/tjones/REALbasic 2007r3b2 Linux/Plugins

I've now modified the script to explicitly launch Firefox on my system and it's working as it should.

Also, working with most popular Linux distributions indicates that Firefox is by far the primary browser installed. Maybe it should be moved to the top of the default list after the $BROWSER environment variable check.