Thunderbird question (solved)

[Anton Rolls]

Hi Bruce,

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.

> 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.

Could you tell us which versions of Thunderbird, Firefox
and Kubuntu that the above applies to ?

Regards,

Anton.