<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Wulfy wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4791AE5B.30307@tiscali.co.uk" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Clark wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I am in an difficult spot, when I use default applications (setup) in System Settings to set email and Firefox it doesn't seem to work, so I select the Help menu, this tells me there is no documentation for this function, next I select the on line help, it doesn't give me a www address, it tries to connect me (very nice if it did) but as it can't find Firefox it kindly tells me so "can't find Firefox. Can someone help me break out of this cycle? Clark. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Type <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="about:config">"about:config"</a> into FF's address bar. Search for: network.protocol-handler.app.mailto It's a string... set it to your mail apps name [mine says "thunderbird"] </pre> </blockquote> Tried that then discovered some points of confusion: 1. Do I create a new line - network.protocol-handler.app.mailto and append the word thunderbird to make it the default Email app. 2. Do I repeat this process - another new - network.protocol-handler.app.mailto and add firefox 3. Then set these lines to true and the expose line to true? <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote cite="mid:4791AE5B.30307@tiscali.co.uk" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Below it is: network.protocol-handler.expose.mailto Boolean. set to "true". All without the quotes, of course. HTH </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>