Thunderbird launches a browser when image URL's are in the message... kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 28, Issue 19

[Douglas Phillipson]

WJ Seidl wrote:
> Doug:
> There is an extension for Thunderbird called "Open all Links 0.3.1"
> Did you download and install that?
> Now might be a good time to check your extensions and add-ons.
> Looking at my "Options" menu, I didn't see anything in TB that would 
> cause such an action.
> Check Firefox as well, and make sure your extensions for your browser 
> aren't enabling it.
> Hope that helps,
> WJS
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> Thunderbird launches a browser when image URL's are in the message
> From:
> Douglas Phillipson <phillipd at oem.doe.gov>
> Date:
> Thu, 03 May 2007 09:13:49 -0700
> To:
> Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> I'm not sure when this started happening but Thunderbird started 
> automatically launching a Firefox "Tab" for every URL to an image 
> embedded in an html email.  If I read an email with many URL's to images 
> I get tons of tabs with the those darn tiny  images, one tab per image. 
>   I don't see a configuration option in  Thunderbird's  "about:config" 
> to turn this off.  Am I missing the obvious?
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P
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I have no extensions except the English language pack installed in 
Thunderbird.  I ended up setting:

mailnews.display.prefer_plaintext = true

But html email looks funcky as plaintext...

Doug P