Firefox, Thunderbird and %#$@* Evolution

Robert kerplop at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jan 30 17:40:54 UTC 2005


Scott Talbot wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 11:51 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:48:19AM -0600, Robert wrote:
>>
>>>and definitely more friendly for those who are still using dialup 
>>>connections but the deal breaker for me is that it wants to use 
>>>Evolution and I don't/won't.  I have looked in the prefs.js file, in 
>>>about:config and in the handful of options available under Edit  --> 
>>>preferences and haven't exactly been inundated with clues. In the Help 
>>>section, I find this jewel:
>>
>>Have you tried the Preferences->Preferred Applications applet (aka
>>gnome-default-applications-properties)?
>>
> 
> 	Actually, since you are using KDE you don't have the menu items, but
> iirc, the program gnome-default-applications-properties will do it for
> you.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
You are absolutely correct.  I ran that bugger in a terminal right after 
posting that 2nd "won't work" message and it works like a charm. Thanks 
a lot.





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