[Klug-general] Thunderbird to Firefox automatically

[George Prowse]

On 21/11/2009 12:07, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
> Good morning all,
> I've recently dumped Mandriva for PCLinuxOS and it suits me fine.
> Only one problem, when I'm servicing emails in Thunderbird and someone
> emails me website details to inspect, although the URL is lit up in
> blue, when I click it I just get a failure notice.
>
> Once upon a time my Thunderbird was set to refer such clicks directly to
> Firefox and haul up the URL.
>
> I've checked through all the user settings but can't find this
> particular setting.
>
> Any ideas?
> All ideas would be good ideas at this time [Consultant Speak :-)  ]
>
> MikeR
>
in your thunderbird folder locate the prefs.js file and put this in it:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");