ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 68, Issue 65
Doug
dlarrabe at columbus.rr.com
Thu Apr 8 00:12:57 UTC 2010
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:36:21 -0700
> From: sdavmor<sdavmor at systemstheory.net>
> Subject: Re: Thunderbird and launching Firefox browser
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID:<4BBCDEB5.1010004 at systemstheory.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> On 04/07/2010 05:27 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>> Using Lucid, and Thunderbird 3.0.4 with Firefox 3.6.3 on a 32-bit
>> system.
>>
>> On another distro I can click on a link mentioned in an email and
>> this automatically starts Firefox if it is offline or opens a new
>> tab if FF is already running.
>>
>> With Lucid I cannot do this.
>>
>> I do have Launchy installed - but I do not think that this is where
>> the problem lies.
>>
>> I also have TB and FF as the default applications in the System
>> Preferences.
>>
>> What is puzzling me is that I can go to
>> System>Preferences>Appearance and click on the links Get More
>> Backgrounds or Themes and in both cases Firefox is automatically
>> started (or the correct web page brought up). But this does not
>> happen from within Thunderbird.
>>
>> Does anyone know what is needed to be done to get a URL link in TB
>> activate FF? For example, in an email someone supplies a link to a
>> YouTube video; I used to click on that link and the video would be
>> automatically brought up in Firefox. How to get this feature back
>> in Ubuntu, anyone?
>>
>> BC
>>
> I had this problem with TB when I started getting the pre-release
> nightly upgrades for TB. I had to manually reattach the link to FF
> from inside TB options.
>
I had the same problem, The only way I could get the links in TB3 to
open FF was to
go into the TB profile and delete mimeTypes.rdf. It will rebuild it
self on the next execution of TB. Then when you click on a link it
should ask you what to do. So you point it to FF. make sure you check
the box to do this every time.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20100407/557388f9/attachment.html>
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list