<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/05/2017 05:14 PM, Peter Flynn wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:59d3b295-4a56-3680-49fb-e4152b3a6795@silmaril.ie" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">1. The arrogance of Thunderbird in making it virtually impossible to force links to open in Chrome instead of FF. I have no idea why they do this (except of course FF is "their" browser). Their config option simply does not work (gets ignored). </pre> </blockquote> So far, it's working for me. I don't recall where I found it, but I think it was directly from Mozilla themselves. <blockquote cite="mid:59d3b295-4a56-3680-49fb-e4152b3a6795@silmaril.ie" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">2. The equal stupidity of Chrome in refusing to open mailto: links by passing them to Thunderbird or your nominated mailer: instead it takes no action, and if you try to open a mailto: link in a new window, it opens a new Chrome window on the same page and does nothing. This is because it uses a deeply unwise little utility called xdg-open, which is</pre> </blockquote> I've not investigated how it's doing it but this also works for me. Chrome <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <span style="color: rgb(48, 57, 66); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">55.0.2883.87, T-bird 43.5.1, Xubuntu 16.04. <blockquote cite="mid:59d3b295-4a56-3680-49fb-e4152b3a6795@silmaril.ie" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Yes Dan, "it's hard for a programmer to know how to look up the user's favorite browser", but only because no-one is prepared to take the first step and enforce global definition of $BROWSER, $MAILER, $EDITOR, $TERMINAL, $FILEMANAGER, and maybe a few others. Maybe one day someone will clean up this mess...it's unnecessary, and very embarrassing when you try to explain to new users how wonderful Linux is, and especially [X]Ubuntu, and then have it fall flat on its face when they click on a link. </pre> </blockquote> Don't really disagree, but as long as everyone has a horse in the race, who's gonna let someone else 'win'? Cooperation and standards will come largely through market pressure, not altruism, methinks. Free / open, commercial / proprietary - We're all still humans, for better and worse unfortunately. <div class="moz-signature"> Len Philpot <a href="mailto:lphilpot01@gmail.com">lphilpot01@gmail.com</a> Sent from Thunderbird on Xubuntu Linux </div> </body> </html>