How to get gaim not to screem?

[thephotoman]

Incredibly odd, but at one point, it was calling up Sunbird for me, so 
take it from there.

Sadly, if something goes that awry with Gaim, there's no graphical 
front-end to fix the problem.

However, there is a preference file in /home/[you]/.gaim 
(/home/[you]/.gaim/prefs.xml).  Open it in the text editor of your 
choice, and find the tag <prefname="browsers">.  Under it, there should 
be a subpreference that syas <prefname="browser type="string" 
value="screem"/>.  Change "screem" to "firefox" and you should be fine.

Douglas Alves wrote:
> Hi fellas!
> 
> When gaim notifies me that I have mail in the Hotmail account I use for
> Instant Messaging, it calls up screem when I ask it to open the mail
> account.
> 
> How can I get gaim to call up FireFox instead?
> 
> 
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