Trouble opening links in Thunderbird

Krüger Michael mickrulist at voipfuture.com
Fri Jun 18 19:20:59 UTC 2010


Try this: 

http://www.michael-krueger.org/search/label/Thunderbird


Am 18.06.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Helder Terra:

> I just found out about this, and I'm not even sure if it's a common Lucid 
> bug, but here it goes:
> 
> Ever since I've installed Kubuntu Lucid both in my home and office 
> computers, I've set Firefox as my default browser and Thunderbird as my mail 
> client. And sure, Dragon Player is my video player too.
> 
> But, for some reason, every time I get a link in a mail message, or a video 
> file attached, it doesn't run at all. Instead of opening the link on Firefox 
> or the video file on Dragon, it opens a window asking me to choose a default 
> program for the action.
> 
> It only happens with these two types of file. My office files open perfectly 
> in OpenOffice from Thunderbird.
> 
> Now, Kubuntu have asked me to do this in the past, and opened a list of my 
> menu applications so I could choose one. But in this one situation is 
> another window. One that shows only my Home folder, so I can't locate the 
> software I want to open the file.
> 
> Is there a way to make Thunderbird know what program should run each file? 
> And it that windows of my Home folder, how can I locate Firefox or Dragon 
> Player?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Helder Terra 
> 
> 
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