From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 23:11:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D236016A4E8 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:11:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D86E43D5A for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:11:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k79NBdhX017904; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:11:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id k79NBdKa017903; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:11:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200608092311.k79NBdKa017903@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: micahjon@ywave.com (Micah) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:11:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <44DA686E.7060909@ywave.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox amd mailto: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:11:40 -0000 > > 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 >