Firefox and Thunderbird

[Jim Byers]

On Saturday 13 January 2007 14:41, Rebel Lion wrote:
> On Sunday 14 January 2007 09:14, Jim Byers wrote:
> > Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to Thunderbird or Kmail the
> > default email anytime an email link it clicked within Firefox.  Next, how
> > does one make Firefox the systems default web browser.
>
> 1) open the following URL in Firefox:
> about:config
>
> 2) set the option "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto" to true
>
> 3) Set a new string to Create the option
> "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" cut an paste that bit without the
> quotes of course.
>
>
> 4) Then in the next window set it to preferred mailer eg kmail
>
>
> To set as default system settings -- default applications -- web browser --
> st to firefox.
>

Jim Byers wrote:

Great directions and it worked perfectly.  Thanks much Rebel Lion.

Jim