[Klug-general] Thunderbird to Firefox automatically

[Michael E. Rentell]

George Prowse wrote:
> 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");
>
Excellent. I would never have figured that out. Followed your 
instructions, done that, it works fine.

What a super lot you are.

MikeR