Dead hyperlinks in Thunderbird ...

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Domingo, 2 de Octubre de 2005 01:33, Jeremy Messenger escribió:
> On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:43:48 -0500, Kiffin Gish
> <kiffin at gish.demon.nl>
>
> wrote:
> > If I click an http:// link in Thunderbird nothing happens when it
> > should automatically startup Firefox.
> >
> > Anyone out there know why this is (not) happening?
>

This is the default behavior.  If you like seamonkey (mozilla), use it.
But,  ...

firefox doesn't have a default mail: or news: handler
thunderbird doesn't have a default http: or ftp: handler

this only happens on windows or in gnome after gnomevfs integration (not 
default).

> Start it in console (xterm, aterm, gnome-terminal or whatever) and
> see if it will showing any error when you click on link.
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz

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  josemi