Firefox & Thunderbird in Kubuntu

[geecee]

Running FF2 and TB2 on Hardy. When I click on web link in TB or a mailto link in FF nothing happens. Is this normal?

[Qqmike]

Re: Firefox & Thunderbird in Kubuntu

You can fix it, as follows:

[Thunderbird] Links in emails don't open in browser
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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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 inside RRRRRRRR.default, 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.


Ubuntuzilla:
http://ubuntuzilla.wiki.sourceforge.net/
=> See the help section in the side bar on the right of the main page; it's toward the bottom.

[stevezygote]

Re: Firefox & Thunderbird in Kubuntu

Thank you. I'll see if I can do that.

[geecee]

Re: Firefox & Thunderbird in Kubuntu

Thanks Mike. It worked. However in my case I had to change "Firefox" to Firefox-2".

And in the Firefox profile I put:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/usr/bin/thunderbird");

That worked too.

[Qqmike]

Re: Firefox & Thunderbird in Kubuntu

Ah, good!
I also had to use firefox-2 this time
(but forgot to mention it)
--Good job on figuring that out, geecee!

[Chopstick]

Re: Firefox & Thunderbird in Kubuntu

usually there should be a link named firefox that points to the correct version...

anyway, I noticed something else:
I'm running Thunderbird 2 and my profile is located in the folder ~/.thunderbird/Profiles/RRRRRRRR.default
there is a .thunderbird/RRRRRRRR.default folder, but that's not my profile but some default profile... so if your profile is also located in Profiles/ make sure you copy the user.js file into the right profile folder... (otherwise it didn't work for me)

- Chopstick

[Qqmike]

Re: Firefox & Thunderbird in Kubuntu

hey Chostick -- this thread is solved and dead; wassup with that?