Opening http links in Firefox

[Nigel Ridley]

On 08/03/2011 08:46 PM, Chris Luck wrote:
> Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> For just now I will have to just copy and paste links into an open
>> browser.....
>
> I was equally disheartened (on Kubuntu 10.10 using TB5 from the Mozilla
> ppa), having gone through the preliminaries as you've described plus the
> howto's on the Mozilla site, but despair not - there's a couple more
> settings to play with!
>
> Go to System Settings->File Associations
>
> 1) Enter 'html' in the search box.
>
> In 'Known Types' I see -
>
> application¬
> x-khtml-adapter
> x-mimearchive
> xhtml+xml
> text¬
> html
> htmlh
>
> 2) Highlight the 'xhtml+xml' entry.
>
> 3) The application you wish to use should be at the top of the list in
> 'Application Preference Order'. If you find a Firefox entry in the list
> go to ->Edit->Application to see where it is pointing to for the
> executable. In my case I'm using the Mozilla ppa and the command line
> is simply set to 'firefox %u'. To use a specific executable click the
> browse button to navigate to the location. If a Firefox entry does not
> exist click the add button to create one then set the command line.
> Once that's done set it to the top of the list.
>
> 4) Highlight the 'html' entry in 'Known Types' and repeat step 3)
>
>
> There's probably a simple console command to do it all but we'll have to
> wait for the command-line guru's to drop by for more info on that.
>
> Behaviour when file associations are set -
> FF Closed: TB opens FF and brings it to the front.
> FF Minimized: TB restores/maximizes FF and brings it to the front.
> FF Un-minimized: TB leaves FF in background while it loads the URL.
>


Thanks. That helped with other issues that I was having but Thunderbird still doesn't respect it. 
I changed the path in Thunderbird: Edit > Preferences > Advanced tab > Config Editor... but still 
no joy :-(

I think I will try the Mozilla ppa and install it system wide.....

Nigel