firefox and thunderbird in gnome2.8

[Radek Kozlowski]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:27:23PM +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Hmm I use thunderbird 0.8 and firefox 1.0pre (both from marcuscom cvs) 
> with gnome 2.8 under fbsd 5.2.1-p11 (i386). It works smoothly. Thank for 
> you work!
> 
> I've a small problem. If I click on a link in thunderbird mail client it 
> asks me how to open it. So I use /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox.rb. The Problem 
> is, that the link will always be downloaded first and then it open it in 
> a tab browser with path file:///tmp/foo.htm.
> Is it not possible to configure thunderbird that it opens the url with 
> firefox directly without downloading the link first to a /tmp directory?
> Perhaps with gconf-editor? I doubt that this is a gnome only problem. 
> But perhaps someone has a solution.

Try adding these lines to your ~/.thunderbird/[...]/prefs.js:

	user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","firefox");
	user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","firefox");

This works for me.

-Radek