Trouble opening links in Thunderbird

[Gil Gibbons]

On 06/18/2010 01:22 PM, nadreck at palain.com wrote:
>
> I know in general what is required, but you will have to do a little 
> research. I am at work on a Windows computer and don't have all of my 
> resources available. What you need to do is go to 
> Tools-->Options-->Advanced, and click the button for Config Editor. 
> This brings up the Javascript "about:config" file, very similar to the 
> one in Firefox, and what you need to do next is either enter or modify 
> the string that tells it to use Firefox. If I were on my home computer 
> I could see what I used, but it is sometihng like 
> network.protocol.handler. I think if you Google it you will find it 
> easily.
>
> Regards,
>
> On June 18, 2010 at 4:57 PM Helder Terra <helder.earth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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Try going to /usr/bin That is where dragon,firefox, and thunderbird reside.
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