How to set email client for firefox?

[marc]

Sascha Güthling said:

> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:15 AM, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
>> Sascha Güthling twice said the following, but once in HTML, which has
>> been deleted:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:21 AM, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In Jaunty, when I click a mailto url, the wrong email client is used.
>>>> System settings/Default applications is set to the correct email
>>>> preference, but clearly this is being ignored.
>>>>
>>>> It's also possible to set the email client in FF via
>>>> Options/Prefs/Apps/ mailto. However, the only entries on there are
>>>> evolution and Yahoo mail!
>>>>
>>>> First, I think this is a bug, so will raise it, but any idea how do
>>>> you change the "default" applications in FF Pref/Apps?
>>>
>>> There is no bug. At least I don't think it is. Firefox is a multi
>>> platform browser and if you think about the sheer amount of Linux
>>> distros alone, you see where the problem lays. Since every distro has
>>> its own preferred email client (and we don't even speak about the user
>>> preferences) it is almost impossible to satisfy every user.
>>
>> Yup, yup, but setting the default mailto to evolution is weird,
>> especially _without_ the option to change the default. I grep'd
>> ~/.mozilla and a few other places, and examined about:config, but it's
>> not to be found. I think that's a bug.
>>
> Are you in Ubuntu?

Who cares? Seriously! All my machines have Ubuntu and Kubuntu on them and 
often a few others. In this case I am using Kubuntu. Kubuntu and Ubuntu, 
et al should be able to deal with that. Always has done in the past.

> Evolution is afaik the standard for Ubuntu and
> probably set as this by Ubuntu and not by Firefox. There is a branding
> package called ubufox that does that I think. In my Firefox installation
> the standard was set to "Always ask"

Hmm Okay. I'll check Ubuntu tomorrow, but I suspect that Ubuntu has 
hijacked kde again.

Sorry to sound negative, but I'm beginning to get a bad feeling about 
Ubuntu and the Shuttleworth project.

Thanks for the info.

-- 
Best,
Marc