Firefox/thunderbird

Newtanknurse · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 56

Perhaps this is an odd expectation, but shouldnt I be able to click through on links in thunderbird to my browser??? This feature does absolutely nothing currently--any ideas on fixes?

jamesdick628 · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:13 am Post subject:

There is actually a very simple solution to your problem. Edit ~/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/prefs.js and add these 2 lines:

transient · l33t Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 759

Ideally, you dont want to edit that file. There is another file called user.js which exists in the same directory.
Add those lines to that file instead.

Newtanknurse · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 56

worked like a charm, thanks

mrelan · n00b Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 2

Hi, I had the same problem. Tried to solve it like you suggest, but everytime I open firefox, he seems to overwrite the settings. When I view the file prefs.js again, it is set back.

xtndd · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 5

osbourd2 · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject:

Can anyone remind me of how to get the links from Thunderbird to open in a new tab, rather than in the current tab?

I used to have this working but it seemed to get lost when I last updated Firefox.

gwolf · Guru Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 374 Location: Estonia

You can also emerge gconf-editor and set the default browser for gtk applications (not only Thunderbird).

To get Thunderbird links open in new tab, check your Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Tabbed Browsing settings in Firefox.

ckiraly · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 50

So I closed both firefox and thunderbird...

opened up Konsole, and went cd /home/chris/.mozilla/firefox/
then went to the *.default directory
noticed there was no user.js in there...

so I nano user.js

and added the following:

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

then saved it...

Opened up Thunderbird. Clicked on a link. Nothing happened.
So I shut down X, and restarted. Went into Thunderbird. Clicked on a link. Nothing happened.

So what did I do wrong, or what else do I need to do?

Thanks -

- Chris

update:
on the off chance it would work, I copied the user.js file to the .thunderbird/*.default folder - and opened up thunderbird, and voila - it worked.

gwolf · Guru Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 374 Location: Estonia

Check if the locations of firefox/thunderbird are correct (they may be located somewhere else or if you installed binary packages, they may be called firefox-bin/thunderbird-bin).

Also, i think the http and https handlers should be in ~/.thunderbird/<profile>/user.js file, not in firefox's user.js file.

You may also need to add

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto","true");

into your ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/user.js