I just switched to Thunderbird and Firefox as my primary email client
and browser for my personal account. The problem was that clicking a
hyperlink in an email or clicking a mailto link on a webpage resulted in
nothing. Newsgroups and irc yielded no help. A websearch provided
only a few clues. There wasn't even any information on how to do this
on the firefox website that I could find. After a little hacking, here
is how it is done:
Both applications should not be running. You will use your favorite
text editor.
There is a prefs.js file in both
/home/you/.mozilla/firefox/blabla.default/ and
/home/you/.thunderbird/blabla.default/ which contains lines of user
preferences as javascript. In the pref.js file in the first directory,
add a line with the proper syntax,
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/usr/bin/thunderbird");
Save the file and close.
In the prefs.js file in the second diectory, you add three lines:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");
Save the file and close.
When you start firefox or thunderbird, they will now work in tandem.
I hope this will save you an afternoon.
Smitty
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