How to open a url in Thunderbird email with Firefox?
Larry Alkoff
Recently I installed Kubuntu 10.04-2 LTS
but lost my ability to click on a link in an email
and have it load like Thunderbird used to be able to do.
How do I get Thunderbird to start urls in Firefox?
> preferences--->attachment--->content, action....
> set to /usr/bin/firefox
>> There is no 'url' content on the list and no way I can see to add it.
Can anyone else tell me how to this (formerly simple) thing?
Larry Alkoff
Mike Easter
snips:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser Default browser
<sNip>
KDE
* Open kcontrol (KDE configuration center), also known as
systemsettings in KDE4.
* Go to "Components -> Components chooser -> Web browser".
* Check "The following browser", and type in "firefox" ("mozilla"
for Mozilla).
If you don't notice the "Web browser" component:
* Go to "Components -> File association -> text -> html".
* Select "Add..." under "Application Preference Order".
* Write the command firefox %U (mozilla %U for Mozilla) and select
OK. You need "%U" so you can load URLs that are non-local files.
</sNip>
or the same page mentions other strategies.
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Mike Easter
goodwin
System>Preferences>Preferred Applications
What do you see?
goodwin
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser Default browser
>
> <sNip>
> KDE
> * Open kcontrol (KDE configuration center), also known as systemsettings
> in KDE4.
> * Go to "Components -> Components chooser -> Web browser".
> * Check "The following browser", and type in "firefox" ("mozilla" for
> Mozilla).
>
> If you don't notice the "Web browser" component:
>
> * Go to "Components -> File association -> text -> html".
> * Select "Add..." under "Application Preference Order".
> * Write the command firefox %U (mozilla %U for Mozilla) and select OK.
> You need "%U" so you can load URLs that are non-local files.
> </sNip>
>
So if the menu bar I alluded to is strictly a gnome thing, I apologize.
I thought it was there in all ubuntu versions
clay
What they said &&
I found when looking at the 'preferred applications' GUI (or whatever
KDE calls it) even though it displayed Firefox (or Thunderbird) I had to
manually select them again from the pulldown to 'tickle' it and make
those apps respond.
fwiw...
Mike Easter
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> * Open kcontrol (KDE configuration center), also known as systemsettings
>> in KDE4.
> So if the menu bar I alluded to is strictly a gnome thing, I apologize.
> I thought it was there in all ubuntu versions
I don't have a Kub install.
I have a Mandriva 2010 live CD here...
<clickety clickety>
Mandriva has a Mandriva Linux Control Center and/or a KDE System
Settings gizmo 'Here you can configure your default web browser'.
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Mike Easter
Beauregard T. Shagnasty
> How do I get Thunderbird to start urls in Firefox?
Have you tried the simple task of opening Firefox's
Preferences > Advanced > General
and resetting it as your default browser?
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-Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
Andrew DeFaria
Larry Alkoff
I still can't get urls to load.
Under Thunderbird, Edit: Preferences: Attachments
Content Type http and https are both set to Use Firefox.desktop.
My ~/Documents file contains Firefox.desktop which contains
Exec=kstart --desktop 2 Exec=kstart --desktop 2 firefox %ufirefox %u
among other lines.
Apparently I'm missing something critical.
Larry Alkoff
Larry Alkoff
> Larry Alkoff wrote:
>
>> How do I get Thunderbird to start urls in Firefox?
>
> Have you tried the simple task of opening Firefox's
> Preferences> Advanced> General
> and resetting it as your default browser?
>
Yes. That doesn't seem to be enough.
Larry Alkoff
Larry Alkoff
It's under Preferences, Attachments and defaults to Use Firefox.desktop
for both http and https. Firefox.desktop is my ~/Documents file with
the command Exec=kstart --desktop 2 firefox %u
I have tickled it again and still can't get urls to load.
Any other suggestions?
Larry
WLS
First suggestion in this Knowledge Base article is to check that the OS
default browser is specified.
http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Hyperlinks+in+Messages+Not+Working
In Gnome it is under Control Center > Set Preferred Applications > Internet.
It appears you have already tried that and it doesn't work.
Maybe some of the other suggestions will help.
WLS
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Artist: Dead Weather
Song: The Difference Between Us
goodwin
>
in your config editor (prefs>advanced>general> - lower right - (or
prefs.js manually), look for 2 lines
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox-?");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox-?");
if you don't have them (I don't) may help to add but I'm not sure of the
format of the executable - see
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.protocol-handler.app.%28protocol%29
WLS
There is also this article.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Setting_Your_Default_Browser
WLS
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openSUSE 11.3(x86_64) - Gnome2.30 - SeaMonkey 2.1b3pre
Mike Easter
> Any other suggestions?
How come you have posted 4 times including 3 replies and have been
referred to a moz kb page at least twice and you have never acknowledged
or indicated that you have used the information on that page?
All you want to 'talk about' or indicate that you have done is
Thunderbird preferences attachments, which is not even mentioned as a
suggestion in the moz kb article referenced.
That article's pertinent sections are those for all systems, linux and
specifically KDE, and setting the browser that opens in Tbird - Linux,
and even a link to setting the browser that opens in Ubuntu (or Kubuntu)
from the commandline.
There is even a prefs.js solution described 'when all else fails'.
3rd reference to this article which you fail to acknowledge
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser The term "default browser" is
used to describe the URL and file associations that determine which web
browser is launched when you ... click a link in a mail application like
Thunderbird
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Mike Easter