[sclug] Mailto in Firefox

[Neil Haughton]

>On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Will Dickson wrote:
>  
>
>>>Are there any Firefox/html gurus out there? I find that mailto
>>>doesn't work in Firefox on my machine (I'm using Thunderbird as my
>>>MUA, but I have kmail installed as well). I can't find any Firefox
>>>settings that pertain to mailing from a web page, in the
>>>Preferences or in the about:config page, and it's annoying me.
>>>      
>>>
>>Much as I like Firefox, there are some really rough bits round the
>>edges, and this is one of 'em.
>>
>>Go to about:config, right-click for new string.
>>
>>Name: network.protocol-handler.app.mailto Value: path to your
>>thunderbird; eg. /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird
>>
>>Restart firefox just to make sure. After that, the following simpler
>>example ought to work (page reproduced complete):
>>    
>>
Thanks - that did the trick. I didn't think of making my own setting. Doh!

Neil.