On 2020-08-15, Lance Courtland wrote: > Ken Rudolph wrote: >> Lance Courtland wrote: >>> Ken Rudolph wrote: >>>> Lance Courtland wrote: >>>> >>>>> I will continue to use the Mail & Newsgroup functions, which I >>>>> like a lot. I have managed to make email links clicked in SM >>>>> Email open in Chrome, which is now my default. >>>> >>>> Could you specify how you managed this feat? I would like to have >>>> links open in the Firefox browser. However Chrome would work, >>>> too. I just don't know how to redirect the browser when I click >>>> on the link. Thanks. >>>> >>> Ken, >>> >>> Try this. I'm using Windows 10, SM 2.53.3 >>> >>> 1. Make Firefox your default browser, from Firefox and in Windows >>> default programs. Reboot computer. >>> 2. In SM check Edit/Preferences/Browser, Default browser. Make >>> sure SM is not your default browser. >>> 3.In SM browser, go to about:config. Search for >>> network.protocol-handler.external.http. If it exists, set it to >>> false. If it doesn't exist, create it as a boolean and set it to >>> false. >>> 4. Do the same as step 3 for network.protocol-handler.external.https. >>> 5. Still in about:config, search for >>> network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto and set it to >>> false. If it doesn't exist, create it as a boolean and set it to >>> false. >>> 6. Close SM and reboot computer. >> >> *sigh*. Neither *.http or *.https exists in my config file. I >> suppose I could figure out how to create them as a boolean since >> years ago I did futz around with the config file per a suggestion on >> this newsgroup. However, nowadays my computer savvy is not as >> effective as it once was; so I'll just have to continue with my >> practice of copying and pasting the links into Firefox by hand. >> >> Anyway, congratulation to you for succeeding and thanks for the hint! >> > Ken, > > Don't give up just yet. Here's how to create a new config preference. > 1. In SM browser, put about:config in address bar, hit enter > 2. Right click anywhere in list of preferences > 3. Select New, then Boolean > 4. Enter preference name, i.e. network.protocol-handler.external.http, > then click OK > 5. In the popup window "Enter boolean value", select false, click OK. > 6. Repeat steps 2-5 until all preferences entered. > 7. Reboot.
I think it might be "expose", not "external", see [1]. Here I was able to open http(s) links (from inside Mail&News) using an external browser after creating network.protocol-handler.expose.http and network.protocol-handler.expose.https, both as booleans set to false. (After this, if I try to open such a link, SeaMonkey asks me to choose a helper application to open it with, and I can set it to "Remember my choice".) [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol#Firefox_3.5_and_above (compared with the "[...] up to 3.0" subsection which follows) (This is all inside the "Linux" section, but seems to work in Windows as well.) -- Nuno Silva _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
