SOLVED, sort of: Firefox, Thunderbird, and mailto links

[beckfield]

I have followed the instructions here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_ma...nt#Linux_-_KDE to get Firefox to launch Thunderbird when I click on a mailto link on a website, but it still won't do anything.

I have created network.protocol-handler.app.mailto via about:config and set it to /usr/bin/thunderbird (found by typing "type thunderbird" in Konsole). I also verified that network.protocol-handler.external.mailto was set to true. Finally, in Firefox, I made sure that the Preferences/Applications setting for mailto is "Use thunderbird (default)."

Having done all this, I still get no reaction at all when I click a mailto link, or when I select Send Link... from the File menu in Firefox.

My system is:
Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 3.5.10
Firefox 3.0.6
Thunderbird 2.0.0.19

This problem has existed for as long as I have been using Linux, so the version numbers are simply the most recent.

What else could be wrong?

All help appreciated.

[Snowhog]

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird, and mailto links

Re: Hyperlinks don't work between applications

[Goeroeboeroe]

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird, and mailto links

The things you did didn't work for me either. I found somewhere another method, and that worked. Don't know anymore where I found it... Maybe it works for you too. Program versions etc. are the same, Hardy too.
I have a Dutch system, so the translations of the names are probably not always completely correct.

* Start Firefox
* Open about:config
* Reset network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
* Close Firefox
* Rename mimeTypes.rdf (it's in the profile-folder of Firefox)
You can delete it, but it's safer to rename it, so you can put it back if this doesn't work
* Start Firefox
* Rightclick on any page and select 'Send link' (or whatever it's called in English, it's the entrance with what you can send the url of the page by mail)
* Fill in /usr/bin/thunderbird
That's my path, but I guess yours is the same.

Well, that's it. Worked for me, hope it works for you too.

[Detonate]

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird, and mailto links

The thread Snowhog posted a link to was written back in the Firefox 2.x days. I think things changed with FF3. I know that FF3 and T-bird linked to each other without me doing any set up with my latest install of II 8.10. All I did was make them my default apps for web browser and email.

[beckfield]

SOLVED, sort of: Re: Firefox, Thunderbird, and mailto links

Okay, here's what finally worked:

I went into Firefox Preferences, Applications tab, mailto entry. I selected "Other" from the dropdown and browsed to /usr/bin and selected thunderbird. All of a sudden, all is right with the mailto world. I don't know why that should be any different than typing it in or copy/pasting it in, but there you go.

I'd sure like to know why everything else didn't work, but then, there are a lot of things I'd like to know.

Thanks to all for the advice. Maybe this will help someone else.