url link in thunderbird

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 05 May 2007 8:35:39 am Tony Alfrey wrote:
> James McDonald wrote:
> > Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >> Maybe there's a Thunderbird list but maybe someone here knows.  In a
> >> received e-mail, there may be a url in the text.  Clicking on it does
> >> not activate a browser.  It strikes me that this must be some config
> >> file that links to my "default browser".  Any idea where that config
> >> file might be or how I might set a "default browser" in SuSE 9.1 ?
> >> Thanks!
> >
> > If you are running gnome or gtk ish stuff then download the gnome-editor
> > and open it and expand desktop ==> gnome ==> url-handlers select
> > whichever url you need to edit mailto | http | https and then edit the
> > command key to taste.
> >
> > I am not sure if this would work for the KDE desktop ... But firefox is
> > a GTK2 app so the gconf-editor may be the one for all of it.
>
> Running KDE but I'll try to see if something like this works.
> Thanks

These may help:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_mail_client#Linux_.28KDE.29
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15898.html

FWIW, I don't use t-bird on linux, so didn't test these methods.

Tim

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