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feffer777 - 10.07.2006, 08:25 Uhr
Titel: How to set Thunderbird as my Firefox email?
When I hit an email link in Firefox, I want Thunderbird to open but nothing happens. It seems like I'm missing something simple, but how do I set Thunderbird to be my Firefox email client?
Thanks,
Ron
drb - 10.07.2006, 09:17 Uhr
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type about:config in firefox url
right click - select add new string
new string is : network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
usr/bin/thunderbird (or whatever) as the application
drb
arlekin - 10.07.2006, 09:59 Uhr
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If you're using KDE, there's a second, more "generic" way: Open the (KDE) Control Center and navigate to the <Components> - <Component Chooser> panel. There you can configure which application should handle e-mails by default (not "only" if invoked by Firefox).
gardyloo - 10.07.2006, 17:53 Uhr
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Zitat:
If you're using KDE, there's a second, more "generic" way: Open the (KDE) Control Center and navigate to the <Components> - <Component Chooser> panel. There you can configure which application should handle e-mails by default (not "only" if invoked by Firefox).
I've set Firefox to be the default browser on my system, but all links clicked in Thunderbird open up Konqueror. If there another way to fix that?
Thanks!
drb - 10.07.2006, 18:06 Uhr
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I think the following should work; there must be another way as I don't have those strings in my config file!
about:config and add the strings below :
network.protocol-handler.app.http and network.protocol-handler.app.https to /usr/lib/firefox/firefox or whatever your path to the Firefox launch shell script is.
drb
gardyloo - 10.07.2006, 19:28 Uhr
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Brilliant! That seems to work perfectly. Thanks!
For those who are trying to do what drb suggested, the steps (at least the way I did it on my machine) are:
Open Thunderbird;
Go to Edit --> Preferences -->Advanced Tab --> General Tab --> "Config Editor" button;
In the list that appears, right-click, and choose New -> String;
Type in "network.protocol-handler.app.http" (without the quotes), then hit "OK";
Type, in the "enter string value" box, "firefox" (without quotes). N.B.: this could also presumably be the entire path, like "/usr/bin/firefox", but the plain "firefox" worked for me;
Repeat the above two steps, but using "network.protocol-handler.app.https";
Close the configuration windows; test!
arlekin - 10.07.2006, 19:33 Uhr
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gardyloo hat folgendes geschrieben::
I've set Firefox to be the default browser on my system, but all links clicked in Thunderbird open up Konqueror. Is there another way to fix that?
On my system (KDE 3.5.3, Firefox 1.5.0.4, the latter installed via <apt>) the relevant entry simply says <firefox>, not </usr/bin/firefox> nor <mozilla-firefox> nor something alike. Hope that helps ...
But there is also another way you might go ("linux" spells "choices" :wink: ): in a Konqueror window, select a htm(l) page and then select <Edit File Type> from the text menue. There you can explicitly "bind" a specific application to the file type in charge.
gardyloo - 10.07.2006, 23:51 Uhr
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Thanks, arlekin! That seems to work for me, for .html files saved on the hard drive or whatever, but didn't seem to affect anything via Thunderbird. I seem to have bad luck with getting those file associations to stick (viz. Mathematica w/ notebooks, anyway). But the original problem is fixed!
hubi - 11.07.2006, 00:29 Uhr
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drb hat folgendes geschrieben::
type about:config in firefox url
right click - select add new string
new string is : network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
usr/bin/thunderbird (or whatever) as the application
drb
drb,
thanks a lot, finally I have kmail as stanard mail-handler in FF and mozilla suite 
hubi
vilde - 17.07.2006, 22:45 Uhr
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I can only say the same, thank you drb this I wanted a long time
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