Thunderbird and default browser

[Eric Benoit]

Thank you ..as setting Application Prefernces option didn't work 
...maybe I'd have to restart.

pirrone at localnet.com wrote:

> Quoting Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>:
>
> > In Gnome it's in your preferences, preferred applications. Sounds
> > like your using KDE, maybe some of the KDE guys can help you with
> > that.
> >
> > Eric Benoit wrote:
> >
> >> I no this is silly, but it's annoying:  While I am in Thunderbird
> >> and I click on a link the default browser konqueror pops up, so I
> >> removed konq. now Epiphany pops up ...I really don't want to spend
> >> too much time figuring this out does anyone know how to set the
> >> defualt browser to something like Firefox while using Thunderbird?
> >>
> >
> Eric,
>
> You sound stressed today, so despite the fact that I'm at school, 
> sitting at a Windows machine since I'm not in my office where the 
> nurturing warmth of Linux is available, here's a pratial answer.  In 
> both Firefox and Thuinderbird directories there are preference files - 
> prefs.js I believe where you can set, ahhh preferences.  One would be 
> the default browser that opens from links in e-mail and the other the 
> devault mail client that opens from mailto links on Web pages. You can 
> create a user.js file with nothing but the reference to these defaults 
> I believe and it will be read along with the prefs.js on program 
> startup, but you can put the statement directly in the existing file.
>
> For Firefox:
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", 
> "/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird");
>
> For Thunderbird
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp","/usr/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","/usr/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","/usr/bin/firefox");
>
> Setting the path to your machine, of course...
>
> Frank
>