Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:31:59 -0700 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox amd mailto: Message-ID: <44DA706F.5080806@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <200608092311.k79NBdKa017903@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200608092311.k79NBdKa017903@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: >> 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, > Sorry. :) Type it in the address bar. It'll expose lots of expert settings, which is why it's hidden by default I guess. HTH, Micah
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