Opening http links in Firefox

[Nigel Ridley]

On 08/01/2011 09:19 PM, Isak Enström wrote:
> On 01/08/11 19:37, 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
>>
>
> You probably need to open the config editor from within Thunderbird and change the strings
> 'network.protocol-handler.app.http' and 'network.protocol-handler.app.https' to where your
> Firefox is installed.
>
> Personally I would have created a folder called 'bin' inside my home directory and then made a
> symlink from ~/firefox_5/firefox to ~/bin/firefox.
>
> Next I would have copied the Firefox.desktop file from '/usr/share/applications' to
> '~/.local/share/applications and then opened it with Kate and changed the 'Exec' line to
> '~/bin/firefox'
>
> That way the system would use your Firefox unless the absolute path '/usr/bin/firefox' was used.
>

Thanks for the help.
I tried your suggestion of the symlink but it still didn't work in Thunderbird so I did a:
sudo apt-get --purge remove firefox
then my 'Kicker' firefox entry didn't work anymore so I removed ~/bin/firefox and it started 
working again :-) but no matter what I do with Thunderbird, it doesn't want to open links in my 
Firefox 5 :-(

For just now I will have to just copy and paste links into an open browser.....

Nigel