Thunderbird

[powerbits]

Hello,

I love thunderbird and Lightning but i never can open a link by clicking on a link on a mail..
I have to copy the link and paste it in my browser

How can i directly open links from my thunderbird mails?

Tx

[Qqmike]

Re: Thunderbird

It's a common situation, easily fixed

See the Help section on the right sidebar, toward the end of the list.

http://ubuntuzilla.wiki.sourceforge.net/

[Qqmike]

Re: Thunderbird

Here's the details in my case; yours should be same/similar:


Open Konqueror. Open your /home/your_name. On the menu across the top, View – Show hidden files. In that list, find and click on the folder .mozilla-thunderbird.
Then, inside .mozilla-thunderbird, Open the folder RRRRRRRR.default
where RRRRRRRR is a string of eight random alphanumeric characters (that may look rather odd to you).

Find or create the file user.js in RRRRRRRR.default.
(To create it if it's not there, as was my case: In that folder, Right-click on an empty place, Create New - Text file , and call it user.js)

Copy these lines into user.js:
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");

File-Save, File Quit
Restart Thunderbird to test it.

[powerbits]

Re: Thunderbird

strange , does not work yet?

[Qqmike]

Re: Thunderbird

If you have
firefox-2
then you would replace each
/usr/bin/firefox
by this:
/usr/bin/firefox-2

You might go there (using Konqueror or Dolphin) to /usr/bin/ and see what you do have--most folks seem to have some version of firefox there.

[kortsen]

Re: Thunderbird

I had the same problem. The Konqueror solution didn't work and I am averse to editing configuration files. Here's my solution.

In Thunderbird go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced and click on [Config Editor ...]. In the Filter: window type http. Look for network.protocol-handler.app.http.

If it's there, right-click on it and choose Modify. If it's not there, right-click anywhere on the list and choose New > String. The name (if you're creating it) should be network.protocol-handler.app.http and the string value should be the executable for your browser. I entered opera (no path) and it worked.

And for you Opera fans, here is a bonus tip. Thunderbird would launch links in the current tab in Opera. I wanted it to open a new tab. Opera has command-line opions for this but you can't put command-line options in TBird's preferences, so I found a shell script and and put it in my user's .opera folder. I launch Opera using this script. So my network.protocol-handler.app.http reads /home/lars/.opera/opera-newtab.sh. here is the script:

#!/bin/bash
exec opera -newpage "$@"

[dwneylonsr]

Re: Thunderbird

Copy these lines into user.js:
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");

File-Save, File Quit
Restart Thunderbird to test it.

Perfect! Thank you.

[Qqmike]

Re: Thunderbird

dwneylonsr, great! You're welcome--and glad it went for you. (Always has for me, too, but maybe not for everyone?)