Thunderbird question (solved)

[Billie Walsh]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>   

That has fixed many systems. Did you put in the name of your preferred 
browser when you did the network.protocol-handler.app.http?

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