Thunderbird browser configuration

[O. Sinclair]

Neil Winchurst wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 02/05/10 09:21, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
>>> A while back Thunderbird got stupid and you had to manually add your web
>>> browser in the configuration. Well that little bug is back, at least on
>>> mine. Does anyone remember the exact wording to add. As I recall it went
>>> something like "network.protocol-handler.http" but I know that's not
>>> exactly right. Somethings missing and I don't remember what it is.
>>>    
>> These parameters are already set in TB when you install it.
>>
> 
>> What you need to do is to make TB, and FF, your default applications to 
>> use for the 'net.
>>
>> BC
>>
>>
> Not in my copy they weren't. And I already had made TB the default email
> application. I had to create these parameters from scratch.
> 
Unless it has changed these parameters are NOT there by default. 
Possibly in TBird 3 but not in the 2.0 something I use. And setting 
TBird as default in KDE does not have any impact on this, at least not 
in my experience.