Few thunderbird questions

[Mark Kane]

Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 3/17/06, Eric Schuele <e.schuele at computer.org> wrote:
>> Steel City Phantom wrote:
>>> ok, bsd 6, kde 3.5, thunderbird 1.5, firefox 1.5
>>>
>>> few things that are slightly annoying in thunderbird that if someone
>>> knows how to fix, i would be very happy.
>>>
>>> 1) when i click on a url link in thunderbird, nothing happens.  how to i
>>> have it open firefox and go to that url
>> I think the following in ~/.thunderbird/<your_profile_dir>/user.js
>> (which may not exist by default):
>>
>> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox");
>> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox");
>> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox");
>>
>> Mind the wrap... its three lines.
>>
> 
> Thanks, now how do you get Firefox to use Thunderbird for mailto links?

It should be:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", 
"/usr/X11R6/bin/thunderbird");

in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profilename/prefs.js

Or enter "about:config" in the Firefox address bar and search for 
"mailto". Then double click "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" to set it.

-Mark

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