Great thanks! Were you installing Suse?
i was wondering what it offered that appealed to you or ifyou just liked
trying out the different distros?
chris
smitty wrote:
> 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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