<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Steven Stern <<a href="mailto:subscribed-lists@sterndata.com">subscribed-lists@sterndata.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On 06/12/2011 11:22 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 12/06/11 11:11, James McKenzie wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 6/12/11 7:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> F-15 and Firefox simply do not work as I want them to so I</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> installed Google Chrome to try it.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> However when I click on a link in an e-mail message in</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> Thunderbird it keeps starting Firefox instead of the default</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> browser, Chrome.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Did you change the hypertext Application from Firefox to Chrome?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>James McKenzie</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> "hypertext Application"</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Where do I find that?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> "Preferred Applications" shows Chrome as the default. I probably</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> should have mentioned that this is F-15/XFCE although the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> problem is with Mozilla Thunderbird so I would not expect the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> desktop to cause the problem.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Bob</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> .</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Something's seriously broken and changing the default apps just doesn't </span><br><span>work consistently. This applies throughout the Gnome3 shell. You need </span><br><span>to edit ~/.thunderbird/yourprofile/ and edit mimeTypes.rdf:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Find and edit the stanzas referencing firefox. The should be for http, </span><br><span>https, and ftp.</span><br><span></span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>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<br></div></blockquote></body></html>