On 01/05/2017 05:14 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
1. The arrogance of Thunderbird in making it virtually impossible to
force links to open in Chrome instead of FF. I have no idea why they do
this (except of course FF is "their" browser). Their config option
simply does not work (gets ignored).
So far, it's working for me. I don't recall where I found it, but I
think it was directly from Mozilla themselves.
2. The equal stupidity of Chrome in refusing to open mailto: links by
passing them to Thunderbird or your nominated mailer: instead it takes
no action, and if you try to open a mailto: link in a new window, it
opens a new Chrome window on the same page and does nothing. This is
because it uses a deeply unwise little utility called xdg-open, which is
I've not investigated how it's doing it but this also works for me.
Chrome 55.0.2883.87, T-bird 43.5.1, Xubuntu 16.04.
Yes Dan, "it's hard for a programmer to know how to look up the user's
favorite browser", but only because no-one is prepared to take the first
step and enforce global definition of $BROWSER, $MAILER, $EDITOR,
$TERMINAL, $FILEMANAGER, and maybe a few others.
Maybe one day someone will clean up this mess...it's unnecessary, and
very embarrassing when you try to explain to new users how wonderful
Linux is, and especially [X]Ubuntu, and then have it fall flat on its
face when they click on a link.
Don't really disagree, but as long as everyone has a horse in the race,
who's gonna let someone else 'win'? Cooperation and standards will come
largely through market pressure, not altruism, methinks. Free / open,
commercial / proprietary - We're all still humans, for better and worse
unfortunately.
*Len Philpot*
lphilpo...@gmail.com <mailto:lphilpo...@gmail.com>
/Sent from Thunderbird on Xubuntu Linux/
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