<SOLVED> Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

[Fintan]

Re: &lt;SOLVED&gt; Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

No ";" just a "," and a space as snowhog mentioned.
The above is the exact copy of my pref file.
Just point it to where swiftfox lives

[Snowhog]

Re: &lt;SOLVED&gt; Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

Where does the comma go?

[Fintan]

Re: &lt;SOLVED&gt; Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");

[Snowhog]

Re: &lt;SOLVED&gt; Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

Then this:

This is from Thunderbird's config:
network.protocol-handler.app.ftp ;/usr/local/bin/swiftweasel3
network.protocol-handler.app.http;/usr/local/bin/swiftweasel3
network.protocol-handler.app.https;/usr/local/bin/swiftweasel3

as posted by ppberns as the contents of his Thunderbird config file (I assume it's also a prefs.js file) should look like this:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/local/bin/swiftweasel3");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/local/bin/swiftweasel3");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/local/bin/swiftweasel3);

[Fintan]

Re: &lt;SOLVED&gt; Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/local/bin/swiftweasel3");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/local/bin/swiftweasel3");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/local/bin/swiftweasel3);

Yeps thats it. Now for bed before I do any more typodamage.

By the way "mostly harmless" is a great book if you don't know douglas adams:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly_Harmless

enjoy

[ppberns]

Re: &lt;SOLVED&gt; Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

Hi,

Thanks but those coma's appeared when I cut and pasted. In actuality there is a space. I should have edited it before posting but was in a hurry.

[hlmyers]

Re: &lt;SOLVED&gt; Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

Okay, if you open the:
~/.mozilla-thunderbird/prefs.js
file add these lines

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");

I prefer this, it is faster.

Or:
[Thunderbird] Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced/General -> Config Editor
-> RightClick somewhere in the list [preferably amoung the "network protocols" entries
-> New -> String.. now type:

network.protocol-handler.app.http

then:

/usr/bin/firefox

click okay

do the same for:

network.protocol-handler.app.https

either way it will work.

sorry for the confusion. It was late

Exactly what solved the problem. Actually, similar lines were in the user.js file, but were mangled, probably due to the downgrade from Firefox 3 to 2.

Deleted those lines and replaced them with yours. Something to keep in mind - Firefox has been renamed on the repositories to Firefox-2 and the hyphen 2 suffix is required if someone has downloaded Firefox recently.

Thanks a bunch for the great help!

Harry

The solution provided above did indeed solve the problem - but, although the URL is passed from Thunderbird to Firefox and is opened properly, Firefox does not come into "focus" i.e. Firefox is not the displayed in the forefront. I have to click on Firefox to bring it into the front.

Any have an idea why?

Thanks

Harry

[Fintan]

Re: &lt;SOLVED&gt; Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

Firefox does not come into "focus" i.e. Firefox is not the displayed in the forefront. I have to click on Firefox to bring it into the front.

If you are using FF2 that will happen.

FF3 "pops" up right away.

Then again, what is one click in the life of a person?

[Snowhog]

Re: &lt;SOLVED&gt; Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

Then again, what is one click in the life of a person?

If you were asking the question of Data (Star Trek Next Generation), he might say, "For an android, that's an eternity."

[Fintan]

Re: &lt;SOLVED&gt; Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)

If you were asking the question of Data (Star Trek Next Generation), he might say, "For an android, that's an eternity."

I know, he speaks with his "mind" / biochips to the computer. We don't. We still need hands