Links sent in emails do not work.

[Steven Vollom]

Billie Walsh wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
>   
>> I am on so much I appologize, but this has been an unresolved problem 
>> for a long time.
>>
>> When I receive an email that has a link included, and I am told to click 
>> on the link, the link never functions for me.  Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 3.5.9 
>> Thunderbird 2.0.0.1.6 (20080724) Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; i686; en-US; 
>> rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008092313 Firefox/3.0.2.
>>
>> To go to the link location, I have been copying the link location, 
>> opening the browser, highlighting the Address line and pasting the 
>> address. 
>>
>> Years ago, when I was using XP, I could just click on a link sent in an 
>> email and it would open the browser to the correct address.  Is this 
>> something I can have happen with my present system.  TIA for help
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> In Thunderbird.
>
> Edit
> Preferences
> Advanced
> General
> Config Editor
>
> In the window that opens.
> Right click
> New
> String
>
> Add:
> network.protocol-handler.app.http
>   
First I right clicked as you suggested and copy and pasted this into the 
opened box.
> next box your favorite browser
>   
Because I did not understand, I copied this next and pasted it into the 
box that reopened.
> network.protocol-handler.app.https
>   
I then right-clicked and created a new string box and copied this into 
the box.
> and your browser again
>   
I then added 'and your browser again' here.

This didn't make sense; I suppose I should have known, so I re-did the 
process first open the new string and copied 
'network.protocol-handler.app.https, clicked OK then typed 'firefox'
into the next open window.  I repeated the process once more.  Then I 
closed everything and attempted to open links.  The link for email 
opened a pre-addressed email response window, so that worked, but when I 
clicked on a browser address, nothing happened as before.  Can you tell 
me what I did wrong?  Sorry for being so stupid.  Thanks for the help.