thunderbird / preferred web browser

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

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