open firefox from thunderbird

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 30 13:21:44 PDT 2008


vu pham wrote:
> 
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>> vu pham wrote:
>>>> Having Googled but still not be able to open firefox when I open a 
>>>> link in  my emails under Thunderbird.
>>>>
>>>> Thunderbird: 2.0.0.17.
>>>
>>> I'm almost positive this is the right procedure.
>>>
>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Get_Thunderbird_to_Export_URLS_to_Firefox 
>>>
>>>
>>> When I get back to my linux box I'll look to see if these are the 
>>> modifications I made.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, this is what is on my linux box.
>> I just updated Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 on SuSE 9.1 and this procedure works.
>>
> 
> Thanks, Tony. I tried all of those network.protocol-handler. And with 
> the same directory .thunderbird with all those settings, TB 2.0.0.16 ( 
> from Yum download ) works just fine and 2.0.0.17 ( from Mozilla donwload 
> ) does not.

Really?  That's weird.  All I did was let Thunderbird do the download 
automatically from the menubar wherever that comes from.  It didn't even 
change the preferences file, it's the same file I used since before 
version 2.0.0.14.



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Tony Alfrey
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