Opening http links in Firefox

[Tom Bell]

Did you go to System Settings -> Default Applications and change
the browser to your new one?

Tom

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On 8/1/2011 1:37 PM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> On 08/01/2011 08:05 PM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> I just downloaded and 'installed' Firefox 5 from the Firefox website.
>> I 'installed' it into my home directory: ~/firefox_5 and to run it I 
>> use the command:
>> ~/firefox_5/firefox
>> I have even edited the main 'kicker' menu to reflect my new Firefox 
>> and it respects it - which is
>> more than I can say for Thunderbird (about:config) and 'System 
>> Settings' > 'Default Applications'
>> > 'Web Browser'.
>>
>> So how can I get Thunderbird and the 'gmail plasmoid' to open my nice 
>> new Firefox 5 instead of
>> the system installed Firefox 3.6x?
>>
>> Any help much appreciated,
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>
>
> OK, I managed to get the gmail plasmoid to use firefox 5 (it was 
> staring me in the face - bottom of the settings page of the actual 
> plasmoid) but am still stumped with getting Thunderbird to use it....
>
> Nigel
>