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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 1 | Last edited on Saturday, February 14, 2004 1:01:31 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
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I put this under ~/bin, made it executable, and tested it with '~/bin/firefox-helper.sh http://www.wlug.org.nz/' - the wlug homepage opens in a new tab.
I then added the following entry to my prefs.js under my thunderbird profile dir:
-user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/home/dhtrl1/bin/firefox-helper.sh");
+
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/home/dhtrl1/bin/firefox-helper.sh");
-and restarted thunderbird
+and restarted thunderbird.
+
+''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''
+
+----
+
+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..
+
+Honestly, even Microsoft doesn't make it THIS HARD to change your default browser!!
+
+The easy solution was to change the browser Thunderbird uses. You don't need any shell script however. I'm using this;
+ user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
+
+I'd still like to know if there's a way of changing the default web browser for everything in KDE though.
+
+ - zcat(1)
+
+----
+
+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]
