Thunderbird - Links (NOT) Opening in Firefox
yogi22
clicked on links in messages. (Transcript below). BTW, sometime after
that conversation with the Purple Hippo, TB reverted to its original
behaviour.
Now I have the opposite problem. When I click on a link in TB, nothing
happens!
When I hover over the link, the cursor changes to a hand and the
underlying address appears in the status bar. If I right-click on the
link, I am presented with the usual options, including, "Copy Link
Location", and it works. IOW, to investigate a link in TB, I have to
right-click on it, select "Copy Link Location", switch to FF, click in
the Address Bar, press "Ctrl+V", then "Enter". Quite a PITA! Any ideas
out there?
Win2K
TB version 2.0.0.14 (20080421)
kk
On Nov 4, 1:39 pm, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
<peter.potamus.the.purple.hi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> yogi22 wrote:
> > As I sift through my RSS and newsgroup emails in TB, when I click on
> > links, my preferred behaviour is for the page to load in background so
> > I can continue working through the pile of emails. This is what
> > happens until the first time that I decide to check out a linked
> > webpage.
> > However, once that happens, from that point on, every time I click on
> > a link in an email, Firefox comes to the front, and I have to alt-tab
> > my way back to the message to continue reading it.
> > Is there any obscure setting in TB that will force it NOT to open
> > webpages automatically when I click on a link?
> > kk
> its not a TB problem but a FF one or a windows one. I don't
> know if this will work, but try it anyways: in the address
> bar of FF type in about:config and look for this entry:
> browser.tabs.loadInBackground
> once found, double click on it and change it to true.
> If thats not it, then look for:
> browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground
> and change that one to true. If that doesn't work, then I
> don't know what the settings would be.
The first one was already True (probably as a result of a selection in
TabMixPlus)
The second one was False
I changed it to True
It worked! (at least on the first few tests. if i have further issues,
I'll let you know).
Thank you, Peter.
kk
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
close FF, open IE, make that the default, close IE, then
open FF, and now it should ask it you want to make that the
default. Did this work?
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yogi22
"Did this work?"
Yes, it did! Thank you Peter! Why didn't I think of that? Any idea
what might have caused that?
kk
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
what do you expect -- its windows!!!! Windows has a mind
all its own. If you don't let *it* do what *it* wants, then
strange things will happen. Could have happened during an
update, or you installed something, or whatever.
Doug Chadduck
new boot device and asks me what I want to do. I tell it OK fine,
continue and everything works fine. "It's Windows!!!" is often the only
explanation. Sometimes you just need to turn everything off and back on
or change every yes to no and then back to yes. And as a friend of many
years often says "I don't answer'why' questions, so don't ask"