Links in Thunderbird

[Jay Ouzts]

In  your /home/ directory look for either a .Mozilla-Thunderbird or 
.thunderbird directory.  The directory will be hidden.

In that directory look for a folder that corresponds to your user 
profile.  Unless you named it something else it will <gibberish>.default.

In that folder look for a file called user.js.

Open it and add the following line

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox"); 


Of course, replace /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox with the correct path for 
your machine.

Arthur S. Alexion wrote:

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>Before the last security update to Thunderbird, the connection between
>Thunderbird and Firefox worked fine.  Clicking HTTP URLs in mail messages
>opened the link in Firefox and clicking mailto URLs in Firefox started the
>Thunderbird composer.
>
>The security update seems to have broken this.  I have gotten mailto URLs to
>work, but HTTP links in messages create a lot of disk activity, but nothing
>happens.
>
>Thinderbird doesn't seem to have anything specific in its preferences.  The
>Attachments tab lists helper apps, but does not allow mime type additions. 
>My configured helpers list is empty.  Yet there are some default actions.
>
>How are these defaults changed?
>
>I am using Kubuntu Hoary.
>
>
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