[gentoo-user] Launch Firefox from Thunderbird

[gentoo-user] Launch Firefox from Thunderbird

[sean]

Recently did an update of the system and no when I click on a link in 
Thunderbird it no longer opens up in Firefox, actually nothing happens.

I am guessing it is just some setting in the Thunderbird config editor 
that needs to be corrected?

Would anyone know what might need to be set?

			Thanks
			Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] Launch Firefox from Thunderbird

[Colleen Beamer]

sean wrote:
> Recently did an update of the system and no when I click on a link
> in Thunderbird it no longer opens up in Firefox, actually nothing
> happens.
>
> I am guessing it is just some setting in the Thunderbird config
> editor that needs to be corrected?
>
> Would anyone know what might need to be set?
Well, I don't know much, but this is one thing I do know.  :-)

Put this line in your prefs.js file:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");

If you want Thunderbird to be able to open https links, also put

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");

in your prefs.js file.

prefs.js can be found in ~/.thunderbird/'some name'.default/

The 'some name' is whatever the .default directory is called on your
system.

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Launch Firefox from Thunderbird

[Dhruba Bandopadhyay]

On 06/08/06, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Put this line in your prefs.js file:

This helped me too but prefs.js kept getting overwritten so I had to
put it in a newly created file called user.js.
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