Thunderbird preferences

[frank mccormick]

Jaime Davila wrote:
> 
> 
> Peter N. Spotts wrote:
>>
>> Use gnome-default-applications-properties to ensure thunderbird is set
>> as your default email client and whatever your browser is for browser
>> (firefox?) It looks like TB assumes you already have your browser
>> activated. So make sure your browser is running before you try to
>> activate a link in an email. Assuming you use firefox, an alternative is
>> to use the following script (copy it into a text file and make it
>> executable) and use it as your "browser" in the
>> gnome-default-applications... settings.
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # firefox-open.sh
>> if firefox -remote 'ping()' 2> /dev/null ; then
>>         exec firefox -remote "openurl($1, new-tab)"
>> else
>>         exec firefox "$1"
>> fi
>>



> 
> 
> While I've seen scripts that take care of this type of thing, you can 
> tell thunderbird directly. One of the advantages of doing it directly is 
> that it will work regardless of which desktop manager you use (i.e. if 
> you switch from gnome to kde, or vice versa, or to some other option 
> available now or in the future).
> 
> To tell thunderbird directly, you will need to edit your preferences, 
> which are stored in your profile's pref.js file. To find this file, go 
> to .thunderbird, and then to a "default" directory with some sort of 
> random name. for example, in my system it's 5q0blabla.default. In side 
> that directory you'll find a pref.js file. Exit thunderbird, and then do 
> the following:
> 
> Open that file with your favorite text editor, and add the following two 
> lines:
> 
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");
> 
> This assumes firefox is in your /usr/bin directory, but that's a safe bet.
> 
> If lines about network.protocol-handler.app.http and 
> network.protocol-handler.app.https are already there, change them to the 
> ones above.
> 
> I'm not sure how comfortable you are with using the terminal, but if the 
> above instructions don' t make sense, just email me back and I'll 
> explain further.
> 


   Talk about quick answers!! I created that script but then saw these 
messages about pref.js. OK done and it works great. Thanks to
everyone.




Cheers

Frank