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desertViking

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 170

Thunderbird and Firefox

I'm not sure if I understand 100% of what I'm asking, but here it goes.

I'm pulling Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.0.7 from the Arch repositories.  Now, in order to get Thunderbird to open URLs from e'mails using Firefox browser, I had to add the following to the "prefs.js" file found in: /home/family/.thunderbird/<profile directory>/:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/opt/mozilla/bin/firefox" );
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/opt/mozilla/bin/firefox" );

Wihtout this, no browser would open when I clicked on a URL in a Thunderbird e'mail.  You may tell me an easier way to make this happen, but I couldn't find it.
What I was wondering was whether those who maintain Thunderbird for Arch might be able to add some sort of reasonable defaults to the prefs.js file?  If nothing else, konquerer would seem a likely default.
Just an idea.

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Thunderbird and Firefox

As far as I know, they're adding the ability to set about:config stuff from within Thunderbird in v 1.5 which is coming out soon.  That'd make it easier to do.

kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

Posts: 657

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Re: Thunderbird and Firefox

how about setting the BROWSER environment variable? works fine for me if i export it in bashrc.

this should work as well for testing purposes:

BROWSER=/opt/mozilla/bin/firefox thunderbird

well, works with anything that takes URLs btw. ;p

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desertViking

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 170

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox

I'll try the BROWSER environment variable, and see what happens.  I *did* set the default browser in KDE which I assumed would have the same effect, but it didn't work.  An URL in another document, say one opened with OO worked ok, but not in a Thunderbird e'mail.

Exporting this into the users' login scripts would be ok, though.

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