Default browser problem -

[john wendel]

On 06/12/2011 04:16 PM, Tim Evans wrote:
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Steven Stern
> <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com <mailto:subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>>
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>> On 06/12/2011 11:22 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>> On 12/06/11 11:11, James McKenzie wrote:
>>>> On 6/12/11 7:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>>> F-15 and Firefox simply do not work as I want them to so I
>>>>> installed Google Chrome to try it.
>>>>>
>>>>> However when I click on a link in an e-mail message in
>>>>> Thunderbird it keeps starting Firefox instead of the default
>>>>> browser, Chrome.
>>>> Did you change the hypertext Application from Firefox to Chrome?
>>>>
>>>> James McKenzie
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>>> "hypertext Application"
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>>> Where do I find that?
>>>
>>> "Preferred Applications" shows Chrome as the default. I probably
>>> should have mentioned that this is F-15/XFCE although the
>>> problem is with Mozilla Thunderbird so I would not expect the
>>> desktop to cause the problem.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>> .
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>> Something's seriously broken and changing the default apps just doesn't
>> work consistently. This applies throughout the Gnome3 shell. You need
>> to edit ~/.thunderbird/yourprofile/ and edit mimeTypes.rdf:
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>> Find and edit the stanzas referencing firefox. The should be for http,
>> https, and ftp.
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>> As I noted in the other thread on this topic, this did not resolve my
>> problem. Matter of fact, my laptop running F15 using the very same rdf
>> file fails to open any browser from Thunderbird
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Same problem here, only on F14 with Tbird 5 beta 1.

John