Setup Firefox so mailto links use Kmail

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Thu May 7 16:04:47 UTC 2009


Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi all;
> 
> I did the following to setup firefox mailto links to use kmail but it did not 
> work. Thoughts ?
> 
> 1) I went to about:config in firefox and ensured that the value  
> "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto" is set to true 
> 
> 2) I did a right click and choose new --> string
>    in the popup for the preference name I entered the following:   
>     network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
> 
>    Then in the next popup asking for the string value I entered this:
>      kmail
> 
> However when I click on a mailto link firefox still wants to bring up 
> evolution. I even tried using /usr/bin/kmail as the string value.
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 

Doesn't going to Preferences>>Applications and searching for mailto give 
you the appropriate dialogue to change this option?

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Suvayu

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