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| Newer page: | version 9 | Last edited on Saturday, June 12, 2004 6:01:00 pm | by DrewBroadley | Revert |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Saturday, June 12, 2004 5:30:25 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/home/dhtrl1/bin/firefox-helper.sh");
and restarted thunderbird.
-''Try putting it in user.js not prefs.js as Thunderbird will just over-write this... -- ReneBartosh''
+''Try putting it in user.js not prefs.js as Thunderbird will just over-write this... -- ReneBartosh''%%%
++ ''Close Thunderbird before you edit, and you won't have that problem -- DrewBroadley
''
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I've just spend the last couple of hours trying to figure out a fairly similar problem! Under KDE3, Thunderbird opens URL links with Konquerer (the default browser for opening a URL), and I wanted to use Firefox. So I figured the easiest way would be somewhere in kde's config, changing the default browser that it uses to open URL's..
@@ -29,4 +30,15 @@
- zcat(1)
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+
+In addition, so Thunderbird can redirect some additional protocls ([FTP] and [HTTPS]) add the following:
+
+ user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/location/to/firefox");
+ user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/location/to/firefox");
+
+Aswel as that, you can define another [FTP] program to handle the [FTP] transactions (though [Mozilla] handles them just fine, try the following:
+
+ user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/location/to/ftpprogram");
+
+- [DrewBroadley]
