how to force mozilla to run kmail for mailto links

[Dotan Cohen]

On 13/12/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> 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...
>

I'm pretty sure (I'm not home now to check) that it's about:config ->
right click -> Add New -> string. Then the name of the string is
'network.protocol-handler.app.mailto' (without the quotes) and it's
value is kmail.

Dotan Cohen

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