Thunderbird no longer viewing http URLs

[Doug Barton]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Jose M Rodriguez wrote:

> | In any case, I'll ask gnome@ about:
> | - merge the uri patch to firefox/thunderbird
> | - take off the XFT knob
> | - make gnomevfs enabled in the default firefox/thunderbird build.
> |
> | I honest think that this is the way to go, even for non-gnome users.
> 
> I'm not so sure non-GNOME users will agree with you here.  I support
> your first two ideas, but I think making gnomevfs2 a mandatory
> dependency will piss off a lot of people.  Especially since you have
> things like:
> 
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "firefox");

Joe,

Thanks so much for this, it worked like a charm! FWIW, this is with 
thunderbird that has the URI patch, but firefox that does not. I had already 
tried the URI patch and it didn't work in just thunderbird. Then I saw this 
message.

As for your sentiment above, and in the following messages to this thread, 
as you know I am firmly in the camp of "less mandatory gnome bits." That is 
of course with all due respect to the great stuff that gnome offers, and the 
fine folks on our gnome@ team, it's just not my tool of choice. In fact, I 
would really prefer to ditch the gconf dependency in firefox, and I would 
definitely not support making gnomevfs mandatory, especially if we're unsure 
what the benefits would be. I would also oppose removing the Xft knob, since 
someone may want to build without it. Having it enabled by default (as it 
is) covers what most of our userbase would want.

If you go about documenting stuff like you pasted above, let me know and I'd 
be glad to contribute what I can to the cause, I ran across some useful 
configuration options while desperately trying to find one that would serve 
this purpose. Not sure how I missed the protocol-handler stuff, but I'm sure 
glad you knew about it. The other thing I've learned is the use of the 
user.js file for these non-standard options, but you probably know about 
that one already too. :)

Thanks again,

Doug