Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:24:08 -0600 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com>, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Subject: Re: Few thunderbird questions Message-ID: <441BC3A8.7020209@mkproductions.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0603180007o17e6c5d3n54e4f9a3de1d4e3b@mail.gmail.com> References: <441B34E9.7090305@yahoo.com> <441B3932.6020509@computer.org> <ef10de9a0603180007o17e6c5d3n54e4f9a3de1d4e3b@mail.gmail.com>
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Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 3/17/06, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> wrote:
>> Steel City Phantom wrote:
>>> ok, bsd 6, kde 3.5, thunderbird 1.5, firefox 1.5
>>>
>>> few things that are slightly annoying in thunderbird that if someone
>>> knows how to fix, i would be very happy.
>>>
>>> 1) when i click on a url link in thunderbird, nothing happens. how to i
>>> have it open firefox and go to that url
>> I think the following in ~/.thunderbird/<your_profile_dir>/user.js
>> (which may not exist by default):
>>
>> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox");
>> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox");
>> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox");
>>
>> Mind the wrap... its three lines.
>>
>
> Thanks, now how do you get Firefox to use Thunderbird for mailto links?
It should be:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto",
"/usr/X11R6/bin/thunderbird");
in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profilename/prefs.js
Or enter "about:config" in the Firefox address bar and search for
"mailto". Then double click "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" to set it.
-Mark
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