Problem:
In a Thunderbird email, I click on a link to a web page, but the Firefox browser fails to open.
Yep. Have solved this problem at least four dozen times in the past. Today it doesn't work. Have spent a good two hours on it.
Today, I installed updated versions of both Firefox (3.6.6) and Thunderbird (3.1) from Ubuntuzilla.
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The standard solution is and has been:
[Thunderbird] Links in emails don't open in browser
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Ubuntuzilla_FAQ#.5BThunderbird.5D_ Links_in_emails_don.27t_open_in_browser
Solution:
Add the following lines to your user.js file inside your .thunderbird profile (if user.js file doesn't exist yet, just create a new file with this content).
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","/usr/bin/firefox");
Restart Thunderbird for this change to take effect.
If you want to use some browser other than firefox, then put in the full path for that browser, instead of /usr/bin/firefox, in the above lines.
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Just like the discussion here:
<SOLVED> Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3096183.0
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Fyi,
/usr/bin/firefox IS there, and is a link to /opt/firefox/firefox. I closed FX and clicked on /usr/bin/firefox, and that indeed did open FX.
So, to state the obvious now ... Any ideas what I'm missing here?
In a Thunderbird email, I click on a link to a web page, but the Firefox browser fails to open.
Yep. Have solved this problem at least four dozen times in the past. Today it doesn't work. Have spent a good two hours on it.
Today, I installed updated versions of both Firefox (3.6.6) and Thunderbird (3.1) from Ubuntuzilla.
- - - - -
The standard solution is and has been:
[Thunderbird] Links in emails don't open in browser
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Ubuntuzilla_FAQ#.5BThunderbird.5D_ Links_in_emails_don.27t_open_in_browser
Solution:
Add the following lines to your user.js file inside your .thunderbird profile (if user.js file doesn't exist yet, just create a new file with this content).
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","/usr/bin/firefox");
Restart Thunderbird for this change to take effect.
If you want to use some browser other than firefox, then put in the full path for that browser, instead of /usr/bin/firefox, in the above lines.
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- - - - -
Just like the discussion here:
<SOLVED> Thunderbird email links won't open in Firefox (or anywhere)
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3096183.0
- - - - -
Fyi,
/usr/bin/firefox IS there, and is a link to /opt/firefox/firefox. I closed FX and clicked on /usr/bin/firefox, and that indeed did open FX.
So, to state the obvious now ... Any ideas what I'm missing here?
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