Comments on: Forcing Thunderbird to open links in Firefox

By: Gore

Gore — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:07:58 +0000

You don’t necessarily have to create the shell script and edit the prefs.js : just create theses “network.protocol-handler.app.*” entries (”string” type) in the Configuration Editor (Edit > Preferences > Advanced) and set their value to “/usr/bin/firefox” (or wherever you put it) and it will make it right too ;)

(Actually I came to your site by searching for dual-head monitor setup… :D)

By: fredo

fredo — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:36:42 +0000

Hi, I found your site just before i understood thunderbird uses the alternative system :
You can do the following command to choose an alternative
sudo update-alternatives –config x-www-browser

or you can go to thunderbirds preferences and look for config editor
Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General > config editor.
You will find the entries called network.protocol-handler.app.*
Just type in firefox instead of x-www-browser, this is pretty much the same that you use.

By: Gengis Kanhg

Gengis Kanhg — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:59:08 +0000

I use Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy) and it is very easy.
I was looking for the answer since two years but without any emphasis.
In Ubuntu you only go to:
System->Preferences->Preferred applications
And declare your browser and mail client.

Cheers!!!