I thought I knew how to fix this, but it's not working.
One is supposed to be able to direct Thunderbird (TB) to a browser when link is clicked by having a file - "user.js" in one's TB profile directory which contains reference to the desired browser. I do, and it doesn't help.
Details: I very recently removed the Ubuntu TB package and installed TB from the Linus tar.gz (or whatever it is) download from the TB website. I did the same thing the Firefox (which is surely what caused the problem), so it's now ver. 3.5.7.
My Firefox launch script is here: /home/tomc/programs/firefox/firefox, so my user.js file is this:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/home/tomc/programs/firefox/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/home/tomc/programs/firefox/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/home/tomc/programs/firefox/firefox");
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix it
Thanks!
(Bonus question: What's the logic behind making this email link so obscure? Right-clicking on an email link displays "Open link in browser" as the first menu entry, yet there's no way to set that functionality up in the Preferences. To have to edit, or worse yet CREATE, the user.js file is nerdy as hell, for a casual user. I just don't understand this. Doe anyone know why they do it this way)
One is supposed to be able to direct Thunderbird (TB) to a browser when link is clicked by having a file - "user.js" in one's TB profile directory which contains reference to the desired browser. I do, and it doesn't help.
Details: I very recently removed the Ubuntu TB package and installed TB from the Linus tar.gz (or whatever it is) download from the TB website. I did the same thing the Firefox (which is surely what caused the problem), so it's now ver. 3.5.7.
My Firefox launch script is here: /home/tomc/programs/firefox/firefox, so my user.js file is this:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/home/tomc/programs/firefox/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/home/tomc/programs/firefox/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/home/tomc/programs/firefox/firefox");
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix it
Thanks!
(Bonus question: What's the logic behind making this email link so obscure? Right-clicking on an email link displays "Open link in browser" as the first menu entry, yet there's no way to set that functionality up in the Preferences. To have to edit, or worse yet CREATE, the user.js file is nerdy as hell, for a casual user. I just don't understand this. Doe anyone know why they do it this way)
Comment