Firefox amd mailto:

[Micah]

Jerry McAllister wrote:
>> Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I recently installed Firefox 1.5 on a FreeBSD 6.1 system.
>>> Mostly it seems to work fine with some apparent finickyness 
>>> about odd character sets.   Since it does not include Email, I 
>>> also installed Thunderbird which works as its own standalone.
>>>
>>> But, when I am looking at a web page that has a 'mailto:' in a 
>>> tag and I click on the link to send a message to whoever, nothing
>>> happens - presumably because there is no mail handler in Firefox.
>>>
>>> So, how, in FreeBSD 6.xxx do I deal with this?   Can I make it 
>>> call up something like a plugin or whatever to handle that mailto: 
>>> Email item.    I haven't found anything that looks like a 
>>> configuration item for such as that.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you can give,
>>>
>>> ////jerry
>> use about:config in Firefox and set network.protocol-handler.app.mailto 
>> to /usr/X11R6/bin/thunderbird
> 
> I guess I don't see where there is an 'about:config'
> 
> I have pulled down every menu and don't see where anything looks like that.
> I also rummaged through the stuff in the .mozilla directory tree.
> 
> Sorry if I am being dense,
> 


Sorry. :) Type it in the address bar.  It'll expose lots of expert 
settings, which is why it's hidden by default I guess.

HTH,
Micah