Links in Thunderbird

[Art Alexion]

Thank you, Jay.  That fixed it fine.

Jay Ouzts wrote:

>  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:
>

> 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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