How to change default brower in Thunderbird?

shaurz · 2011-07-09 19:27:45

When I click on links in Thunderbird, it opens them in Chromium. I want it to open them in Firefox. I've tried the recommended method of creating a user.js in the profile directory with these lines:

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

But that seems to have no effect. In KDE system settings, my default browser is set to Firefox.

In Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Config Editor

network.protocol-hander.app.http is set to /usr/bin/firefox

In Firefox preferences, in Advanced -> General -> System Defaults, clicking "Check Now" reports "Firefox is already set as your default browser."

Last edited by shaurz (2011-07-09 19:39:57)

ren2r · 2011-07-10 18:24:40

My thunderbird open the links with the application defined in file /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, in the line prefixed with "x-scheme-handler/http=" inside this file.
You can set this line in file inside your home:

.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

edit the file above, if you have no you must create then, and set: (or edit the file inside your /usr/....)

x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop"

"I don't remember how kde sets your default applications, but thunderbird look inside this file for try interact more with gnome.

shaurz · 2011-07-11 02:48:15

Thanks, that did the trick. It's kind of a strange way to do it, but whatever.

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#1 2011-07-09 19:27:45

How to change default brower in Thunderbird?

#2 2011-07-10 18:24:40

Re: How to change default brower in Thunderbird?

#3 2011-07-11 02:48:15

Re: How to change default brower in Thunderbird?

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