I recently installed Thunderbird email client v1.0.2 on my VectorLinux
v5.0 box, which has Firefox v1.0 already installed. Everything went
smoothly and all works, except highlighted web links in Thunderbird do not
boot up my default browser (firefox), nor any browser for that matter.
Env variable $BROWSER is set to "firefox". I have browsed through the
..thunderbird home directory and its config files and cannot see anything
obvious.

Any ideas on what to do appreciated.

Larry Gagnon

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You can add lines to prefs.js in thunderbird that will make firefox
open links from thunderbird something like this:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp",
"/usr/local/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http",
"/usr/local/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https",
"/usr/local/bin/firefox");

may have to change the last line to where firefox is located and also
make sure that thunderbird is closed when you do this.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:36:06 -0700, Michael Perry wrote:

> You can add lines to prefs.js in thunderbird that will make firefox
> open links from thunderbird something like this:
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp",
> "/usr/local/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http",
> "/usr/local/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https",
> "/usr/local/bin/firefox");


Thanks! Worked wonderfully...


Larry