Re: [newbie] Calling Firefox from Thunderbird

[Brandon Rife]

Russell Butler wrote:
Hi all
Hopefully a simple question:
I have just installed Firefox and Thunderbird on my MK10 setup -KDE 
desktop and am most impressed.

If there is a web link in an email, clicking on it opens konqueror.  
Is there any way to use Firefox as the default agent?
I have set Firefox with the default  file association for html, but 
konqueror still opens.

Thanks for help
Russell
The following works for me in KDE. In your $HOME/.thunderbird/<random 
chars>.default directory look for a file called user.js (if you see a 
file called prefs.js you're in the right directory).  If you don't find 
user.js create it.  Add the following line to user.js

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
Note that your path to firefox may be different than mine. 

I also had to do something similar to get Thunderbird to handle the 
mailto protocol inside of Firefox.  In the 
$HOME/.mozilla/thunderbird/<random chars>.default directory I created a 
user.js file and added the following line:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", 
"/opt/thunderbird/thunderbird");

Good luck!
Brandon

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