how to force mozilla to run kmail for mailto links

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 08 December 2006 09:56, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 22:52 +0000, Leo wrote:
>> On THU, 7 DEC 2006, Kevin Kempter wrote:
>> > How can I force mozilla & konqueror to run kmail when a mailto link
>> > is clicked? (FC5 & KDE)
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>> about:config
>>
>> add 'network.protocol-handler.app.mailto', type 'string', value
>> 'kmail'.
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> You might have to play with the value part. I don't have kmail, so I
>> can't test it.
>>
>> --
>> Leo
>
>You are implying that one can do something I have always wondered how
>one does. Do you type the "add" line in the filter window when you are
>in about:config?
>Does remove also work?

I just did that, by right clicking on a blank area of the displayed screen 
after putting "network.proto" in the 'filters' line to narrow the display 
choices.

>From the right click, choose add.  Its a 2 step process in that you enter 
the 'network.protocol-handler.app.mailto' w/o the quotes first, and then 
it will open another identical window to enter the 'kmail' into.

And I'd have to assume that the remove works.  I wasn't smart enough to do 
the right click the last time and had to hunt the file down and nuke the 
offending line with vim.  Then I was able to re-compose it correctly, at 
which point at least 90% of the firefox segfault exits I was getting went 
away.  Not all mind you, but most.

I've been gone a week, so I'm still not caught up on my email reading...

>--
>Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>

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