Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:25:42 -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: <200608101825.k7AIPgRE020965@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 Wow, thank you very much. It was interesting to learn about about:config I fished around on the Mozilla site for quite a while and didn't really find anything of value and a post to a forum just got me a link to some MS-Win setup and some Gnome and KDE configuration notes. At first, there was no preference in about:config on my Firefox called: 'network.protocol-handler.app.mailto' but almost by accident while poking around, I learned I could bring up a box to add one by right clicking and then clicking on 'New', so now I have it. I also had to turn on: 'network.protocol-handler.expose.mailto' which is a boolean and just flips on a double-click. But, now it works. So, thanks, ////jerry > > There are similar settings to get thunderbird to open http links in firefox. > > HTH, > Micah > > >
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