Thunderbird question (solved)

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Billie Walsh wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > I've been looking at Thunderbird as a possible email client but am
> > perplexed by one thing:
> >
> > If there is a URL present in an email, and it's underlined and blue
> > (indicating that T-bird knows its a URL)  clicking on it does not do
> > anything.
> >
> > Obviously there must be a setting somewhere telling T-bird what
> > application to use (as in Firefox) but I have looked from one end of
> > T-bird to the other and can't find any such setting.
> >
> > Could someone hit me with a clue?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> OK, here goes:
>
> Edit
> Preferences
> Advanced
> General Tab
> Config Editor
>
> Add:
>
> network.protocol-handler.app.http       {and your choice of browser}
> network.protocol-handler.app.https      {and your choice of browser}

The above didn't work....  nor did the other suggestion of sytem-settings and 
setting the default browser.  (which was already set)

What I found worked, was:

1) putting   network.protocol-handler.expose.http   true     in the config.

(might also need one for  'https')

2) Adding the above, causes T-bird to ask what you want to do when clicking on 
an HTML file  and you can then select your favorite browser and also tell it 
to always open files with that browser.   This was under:

edit  -->  preferences -->  atachments  -->   actions

After doing (1), T-bird added the entry to actions based on my selection when 
clicking on a HTML file.

I would think that T-bird would open URL's without needed all this prodding.  
Kmail doesn't have that problem...  but then, Kmail can look to the KDE 
default settings.