Thunderbird preferences

[Thilo Six]

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Peter N. Spotts wrote the following on 09.06.2006 17:24:
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 10:43 -0400, frank mccormick wrote:
>> I am thinking of switching to Thunderbird and wonder where in T'bird is 
>> the user preference for a browser set. When I click on a URL in a 
>> message, nothing happens. Starting T'bird from a shell I get the error 
>> message " no running window found" but no indication of what browser 
>> it's looking for.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Frank
>>
> 
> Frank,
> 
> Use gnome-default-applications-properties to ensure thunderbird is set
> as your default email client and whatever your browser is for browser
> (firefox?) 

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> 
> #!/bin/sh

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> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> Pete

even easier then that:
$ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
(choose FF if you like)

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-thunderbird
(choose gnome if you do use it)

Those did everything for me.

bye Thilo

PS. if you still have problems:
"The right way to set up an browser in TB" is to open/create:
$ vim ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/_RANDOM_/user.js

in that file enter:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "firefox %s");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "firefox %s");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "firefox %s");
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i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- - some friend of mine

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