kmail/kontact and FF3

[O. Sinclair]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> O. Sinclair wrote:
> 
>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>> On Sunday 20 July 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> Sorry to come so late to this - I don't use FF for anything except bad
>>>> websites that don't behave properly with Konqueror, but my wife does,
>>>> and
>>>> now I find myself up against the same problem.  There is a good howto
>>>> at:
>>>>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/firefox-3.0-email-link
>>>> s-no-thunderbird-650845/page2.html#post3195097
>>>>
>>>> for making FF3 work with Thunderbird, and simply replacing all
>>>> occurrences of "thunderbird" with "kmail" makes it possible to invoke
>>>> kmail from inside FF3, but I haven't actually figured out how to fill in
>>>> To/Subject yet.
>>> Late but OK.....
>>>
>>> The link above worked........   Thanks!
>>>
>> After some attempts I also got it working, thanks! Been looking for this
>> "forever". Strange that it is so tricky to get something so seemingly
>> simple to work.
> 
> This patch, with the necessary fix to work properly with KMail, really
> should be part of Kubuntu, but it seems like a serious flaw in FF that it
> doesn't provided simpler ways to invoke mail clients.
Amen to that... the "applications" in the Preferences is still empty....