removal of midbrowser

[Ray Parrish]

don fisher wrote:
> Ray,
>
> I really appreciate your reply to my, at time, newbie questions. Let 
> me explain a few more details. The first is that I am trying to change 
> from Fedora to Ubuntu. So many of the tasks I previously new how to 
> perform changed or gained aliases:-) Part of the adventure I guess.
>
> I have had to install the 32-bit version of firefox in my home 
> directory. I did this because some of the codecs for online videos 
> only exist in 32 bit formats.
>
> Along the lines I found:
> a) The links from /etc/alternatives are:
>    /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/firefox-3.0
> b) The links from /usr/bin are:
>    /usr/bin/firefox -> /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 -> 
> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5/firefox.sh
>
> So both paths end up at /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5/firefox.sh.
>
> But when I click on a link contained in a Thunderbird email, it still 
> opens midbrowser.
>
> My ~/.mozilla directory, as shown below, does contain an entry for 
> midbrowser:
>
> .mozilla>ls
> appreg          dfisher/        firefox@        mozver.dat      plugins/
> default/        extensions/     midbrowser/     pluginreg.dat
>
> There appears to be something within Thunderbird that wants to use the 
> midbrowser rather than the firefox entries. I cannot find anything in 
> Thunderbird that would change that setting. I am not even aware of how 
> I enabled it. Maybe one of the upgrades did it by default?
>
> Thanks again for your help. I really have most things working. Only 
> problems with Network Manager and Sound remain. But there have been 
> many other posts on these subjects so I assume they are being fixed.
>
> don
>
> Ray Parrish wrote:
>> don fisher wrote:
>>> I have just installed ubuntu 8.10. In the past when running 
>>> Thunderbird, I could click on a link in an email message, and the 
>>> link would open in FireFox. Now it opens in midbrowser. Using 
>>> synaptic, I removed midbrowser. Then when I clicked on the link 
>>> nothing happened.
>>>
>>> How does one tell Thunderbird to use FireFox rather than midbrowser?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> don
>>>   
>> Start Firefox, select Edit, Preferences, on the Preferences dialog 
>> select the Advanced tab. Near the bottom of that tab is a checkbox 
>> that says "Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser". 
>> Check that, and then over to the right is a button which says "Check 
>> Now". Click that and if it asks if you want to make Firefox the 
>> default browser, click Yes.
>>
>> Here is another method you can use in terminal, on the command line 
>> type -
>>
>> update-alternatives --install x-www-browser 
>> /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser /usr/bin/firefox
>>
>> Then, use
>> update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/firefox
>> or
>> update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
>>
>> Take your pick.
>>
>> Later, Ray Parrish
>>
>
Hello again,

LOL! You're a noob??? I've only been using Linux for about six months
now, after years of suffering the problems of Windows... I have been
tearing into the guts of Ubuntu every day however, and have been
learning quite a bit.

Also, I'm pretty good at using Google, and a search there on "ubuntu
thunderbird http link" has put me onto a thread that contains what I
think may be the answer for you.

Create a text file and name it user.js and put the following lines in it -

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox");

Then save into your Thunderbird profile folder. The right folder will
already have a file called prefs.js. On my machine this path is
/home/ray/.mozilla-thunderbird/jta97xpo.default/

WOOPS! I realized right after clicking the Send button, that I had 
forgotten about your non-standard path to Firefox. Please amend the 
paths in the user.js file to "/usr/bin/firefox-3.0" to make it work on 
your system.

I hope this solves your problem.

Later, Ray Parrish

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