Opening http links in Firefox

[Michael Hirsch]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net>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


I found that if I go to Edit->Preferences->Attachments and change the
settings for Content-type http and https to /usr/bin/google-chrome then
links in emails open in chrome.  It doesn't matter that they aren't
attachments.

So presumably that would would with your firefox, too.

Michael
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