Opening http links in Firefox SOLVED

[Nigel Ridley]

On 08/04/2011 08:12 AM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> 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
>
>

Managed to get everything working by adding the ppa at:
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppas/14

[code]
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox
[/code]

Thanks for the help...


Nigel