Thunderbird is my default email program. For years the File --> Send Link allowed me to use Thunderbird to send the URL of a page as the email content, and the title in the subject line. Since the most recent update to FireFox 3.6.10 I found that "Send Link" no longer worked, even though the "Applications --> mailto" was set to "Thunderbird (default)". When I changed it to GMail (I don't have an account Yahoo mail) the "Send Link" worked. The "Thunderbird (default)" setting which had been selected on all prior versions of FireFox no longer works. Neither does using "Other" and pointing it to the thunderbird link, the sh shell the link was pointing to or the bin file the shell ran. No setting changes in prefs.js or users.js would cause FF "Send Link" to use TB.
Using "about:config" and creating the network.protocol-handler.app.mailto string and setting to "/usr/bin/thunderbird" or the other possibilities did not work, either. I also have KMail set up as well, but I suspect that it will not work either.
I can use GMail with "send link" and, fortunately all my contacts are also in GMail, but GMail is not as easy to use as Thunderbird and my main use for GMail is for spam filtering and website registration. I also want my emails kept and stored locally, because sooner or later Google is going to start charging for each GB of email archives I have on their service.
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I hope I am misunderstanding what is happening here, but IF Canonical is trying to force me to GMail and Chrome, and away from FireFox they may end up forcing me away from Canonical instead because it is antithetical to Linux to take away choice & control from the user. It's one thing if I do not have the knowledge or skill to chose or control. It is another thing entirely that my skills and options are negated by someone who thinks they know better than I what I want, what I need, and what I want to do.
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Konqueror is not, IMO, as good as FF, but I didn't leave MS just to get locked into another corporation.
Using "about:config" and creating the network.protocol-handler.app.mailto string and setting to "/usr/bin/thunderbird" or the other possibilities did not work, either. I also have KMail set up as well, but I suspect that it will not work either.
I can use GMail with "send link" and, fortunately all my contacts are also in GMail, but GMail is not as easy to use as Thunderbird and my main use for GMail is for spam filtering and website registration. I also want my emails kept and stored locally, because sooner or later Google is going to start charging for each GB of email archives I have on their service.
<soapbox>
I hope I am misunderstanding what is happening here, but IF Canonical is trying to force me to GMail and Chrome, and away from FireFox they may end up forcing me away from Canonical instead because it is antithetical to Linux to take away choice & control from the user. It's one thing if I do not have the knowledge or skill to chose or control. It is another thing entirely that my skills and options are negated by someone who thinks they know better than I what I want, what I need, and what I want to do.
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Konqueror is not, IMO, as good as FF, but I didn't leave MS just to get locked into another corporation.
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