__/ [Lenard] on Saturday 03 September 2005 15:24 \__
> Terry E. Dwyer wrote:
>
>> I am using MOZILLA with THUNDERBIRD in Fedora-C2;URL's in
>> Thunderbird
>> are not picked up.
>> It just shows the http://URL at the bottom of the screen;I suspect
>> it's looking for FIREFOX but there must
>> be a small change possible in a profile or config file to fix this;any
>> ideas ?
>
> Linking Firefox and Thunderbird to each other for (Gnome, KDE or
> whichever);
>
> Either edit the ~./mozilla/firefox/<random8characters>.default/prefs.js
> file or start mozilla and type 'about:config' without the quotes in the
> URL window and add (or maybe toggle);
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.expose.mailto", true);
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto",
> "/path/to/thunderbird-<version>/thunderbird");
>
> The above line is one long line with a space after the comma.
>
> Use the locate command to help you find the thunderbird-<version> path,
> example;
>
> $ locate thunderbird-bin
> /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.6/thunderbird-bin
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto",
> "/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.6/thunderbird");
For some reason, I was advised to call a script rather than e.g.
/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.6/thunderbird
Just in case the above solution poses problems, here is the script:
(remember to modify MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME)
#!/bin/sh
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="$HOME/Main/Programs/thunderbird"
url="$1"
if [ "x$url" = "x" ]; then
exit 0
fi
url=`echo $url|sed 's/^mailto://'`
if $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -remote "mailto($url)"; then
exit 0
fi
exec $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird "$url"
> The above is one long line with a space after the comma.
>
> Edit the ~./thunderbird/<random8characters>.default/prefs.js
> file and add;
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "firefox");
I believe that by default, Thunderbird attempts to use KDE's (being overly
specific here) primary browser, as specified among the filetypes perhaps.
The above is sure to work too and is a solution I have not come across
before.
Roy
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