thunderbird / preferred web browser
"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
johannbg at hi.is
Mon Oct 19 21:07:46 UTC 2009
On 10/19/2009 08:51 PM, Dennis J. wrote:
> Hi,
> How does one configure a custom preferred web browser that opens when
> clicking on a link in an email in thunderbird?
> I installed a trunk build of Firefox in /opt/firefox but when I
> specify "/opt/firefox/firefox -P exp" as a preferred application then
> I only get a new window with the default mozilla homepage and not the
> url i clicked on.
> I also called a shell-script that dumps $* into a logfile which ends
> up empty so I wonder how that URL is passed to the called app if not
> as a parameter?
Start Thunderbird and..
Edit --> Preferences --> Advanced --> Config Editor --> Filter -->
network.protocol-handler.app.http enter path to browser exec.. for
example /usr/bin/firefox
or add an entry "user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http",
"/usr/bin/firefox"); " to the prefs.js file....
JBG
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