Firefox/Thunderbird and `mailto' links

[Art Alexion]

Matt Patterson wrote:

> I have had the same problem, and I almost wrote a script to fix it,
> but someone else beat me to it:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-18175.html
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> August Karlstrom wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When I click on a `mailto' link in Firefox and Thunderbird is not
>> running it works as expected, but when Thunderbird is already
>> running a dialog window entitled "Choose User Profile" pops up. Has
>> anyone experienced this problem? How do I solve it?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> August
>>
>>
>
>
How about the opposite problem? in Gnome, clicking a url in Thunderbird
opened a tab in Firefox.  In KDE, nothing happens, whether Firefox is
running or not (there is some disk activity with no apparent result).

-- 

_______________________________________
Art Alexion
Arthur S. Alexion LLC
arthur [at] alexion [dot] com
aim: aalexion
sms: 2679725536 [at] messaging [dot] sprintpcs [dot] com

PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661  92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A
The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm.
Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html

Key for signed PDFs available at
http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c
The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG.
________________________________________

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 374 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20050923/1c33a618/attachment.sig>