[Solved] How to open links from within Thunderbird

[Quaxo76]

Hello,
I have been using Thunderbird as an email application since I started using Linux - that's because this way I can get to access the email data from within both Linux and Windows.
From within Windows, if I click on a link embedded in an email, then Firefox opens and loads that page. But under Kubuntu, if I click on links in emails, nothing happens. How can I fix that?

Thanks,
Cristian

[Fintan]

Re: How to open links from within Thunderbird

Try this in a terminal:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

then choose firefox.

Also go to K->system settings->default applications (or something like that, mine is in german) and chhos thunderbird and firefox respectively.

Hope that helps
Cheers
fintan

[Quaxo76]

Re: How to open links from within Thunderbird

Hi Fintan,
Thanks for the reply. I followed your suggestion, and chose Firefox (Konqueror was default) but still, nothing happens. When I click on the links it's just as if I didn't click at all.
In system settings -> default apps I had already chosen Firefox and Thunderbird.
So, it has to be something else...

Cristian

[Detonate]

Re: How to open links from within Thunderbird

In Thunderbird, click on Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Config Editor.

See if you have the following two preferences listed.

network.protocol-handler.app.http
network.protocol-handler.app.https

If not, right click anywhere on the page, and choose to add a new string. Add the above preferences with a value of x-www-browser.

Restart Thunderbird. Should be good to go.

[Quaxo76]

Re: How to open links from within Thunderbird

That did the trick!! Thank you so much. Just out of curiosity: where did you read about it? There are so many things I don't know, and when someone comes out with tricks like this I always wonder how I could have learned them...

Thanks again
Cristian

[Detonate]

Re: [Solved] How to open links from within Thunderbird

I don't remember where I first learned this, but I probably just googled it. Google is your friend.