Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:11:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: micahjon@ywave.com (Micah) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox amd mailto: Message-ID: <200608092311.k79NBdKa017903@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <44DA686E.7060909@ywave.com>
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> > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I recently installed Firefox 1.5 on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. > > Mostly it seems to work fine with some apparent finickyness > > about odd character sets. Since it does not include Email, I > > also installed Thunderbird which works as its own standalone. > > > > But, when I am looking at a web page that has a 'mailto:' in a > > tag and I click on the link to send a message to whoever, nothing > > happens - presumably because there is no mail handler in Firefox. > > > > So, how, in FreeBSD 6.xxx do I deal with this? Can I make it > > call up something like a plugin or whatever to handle that mailto: > > Email item. I haven't found anything that looks like a > > configuration item for such as that. > > > > Thanks for any help you can give, > > > > ////jerry > > use about:config in Firefox and set network.protocol-handler.app.mailto > to /usr/X11R6/bin/thunderbird I guess I don't see where there is an 'about:config' I have pulled down every menu and don't see where anything looks like that. I also rummaged through the stuff in the .mozilla directory tree. Sorry if I am being dense, ////jerry > > There are similar settings to get thunderbird to open http links in firefox. > > HTH, > Micah >
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