mozilla firefox and thunderbird

apfritts · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject: mozilla firefox and thunderbird

Ok, hopefully Gentoo doesn't ban me for posting 8 million times to their forums, but anyway....

I am using Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5-r1 and Firefox 1.5.0.1-r2....when I click on a link in Thunderbird, you would think it would open it up in Firefox (or some web browser) but it doesn't. How do I make it do that? I looked around in the config editor for "browser", "link", "click" and another one or two, but I still can't figure it out!!

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!!

sternklang · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject:

What is your default browser set to? If you're running Gnome (2.12), go to Desktop->Preferences->Preferred Applications and see if Firefox is your Web Browser. If you're running KDE or xfce or some other environment I don't know where you will find this, but in any case this is something that would be handled by the system, not directly by Thunderbird.

at240 · l33t Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 603 Location: UK

This is a common problem---a search for 'thunderbird links' reveals the answer.

See this one for example...
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-391908-highlight-thunderbird+links.html

apfritts · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: thanx!

thanks, i got it to work