Firefox not acting like default browser

[brconner]

Hey,
I have firefox set as my default browser but whenever i click a link in thunderbird or another program it opens Konqueror. How can I change this? I already checked the default applications settings and it says that firefox is the default.
Thanks,
Blair

[Guest]

Re: Firefox not acting like default browser

Have you done:

$ sudo update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/firefox

That setting is system wide for all users.

If that doesn't work Thunderbird has a per-user setting for handling http links. Start Thunderbird and go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced and click the 'Config Editor' button. Find the Preferences called network.protocol-handler.app.http and network.protocol-handler.app.https and alter their values to firefox.

[rovernaut]

Re: Firefox not acting like default browser

Have you done:

$ sudo update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/firefox

That setting is system wide for all users.

If that doesn't work Thunderbird has a per-user setting for handling http links. Start Thunderbird and go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced and click the 'Config Editor' button. Find the Preferences called network.protocol-handler.app.http and network.protocol-handler.app.https and alter their values to firefox.

I just tried the code your provided and it changed my thunderbird settings to open URls in firefox instead of Konquerer, this is something I wanted to do for a while.
Thanks for posting it. It worked