Thunderbird and launching Firefox browser

[Basil Chupin]

On 08/04/10 05:36, sdavmor wrote:
> 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.
>    

Thanks for the response but it doesn't provide me with the solution :-) 
: what does "manually reattach the link to FF" mean?

BC

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