Firefox3 > Send Link > won't use Thunderbird

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jun 22 19:14:27 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 14:21 -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:04 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Fc8, Firefox 3
>>>> When using  File  >  Send Link in Firefox 2 it would open Thunderbird to 
>>>> send link, but in Firefox3 the feature doesn't work.
>>>> In /,mozilla/firefox/default/user.js file, to select thunderbird, but it 
>>>> won't work in Firefox 3.
>>>> Below is contents of  user.js
>>>>
>>>> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/usr/bin/thunderbird");
>>>> user_pref("browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs", true);
>>>>
>>>> What's different in FF3 ??
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> AFAIK this is a GTK setting, not specific to Firefox (FF uses GTK). Try
>>> setting TB in the Gnome Preferred Applications dialogue. If you use KDE,
>>> run gnome-control-center to get to it.
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Sorry about that, I'am running  KDE and I don't have
>>
>> gnome-control-center  installed, do you know howto do this in KDE ?
>> Thanks for your responds.
>>     
>
> No I don't, but note that FF is a GTK application compiled with GTK
> libraries so KDE has no direct way of controlling it. You could probably
> edit the gconf files directly, but I don't recommend it. Just run "yum
> install control-center". It won't get in the way of using KDE.
>
> poc
>
>   
Boy that sure is a weird  way of  having to set it up, but that did the 
trick , Thanks for the help
Even tho I'm not a Gnome user, I think I'll keep that Gnome-control-center.
Jim




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