Firefox3 > Send Link > won't use Thunderbird

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 22 17:51:49 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:04 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Fc8, Firefox 3
> When using  File  >  Send Link in Firefox 2 it would open Thunderbird to 
> send link, but in Firefox3 the feature doesn't work.
> In /,mozilla/firefox/default/user.js file, to select thunderbird, but it 
> won't work in Firefox 3.
> Below is contents of  user.js
> 
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/usr/bin/thunderbird");
> user_pref("browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs", true);
> 
> What's different in FF3 ??

AFAIK this is a GTK setting, not specific to Firefox (FF uses GTK). Try
setting TB in the Gnome Preferred Applications dialogue. If you use KDE,
run gnome-control-center to get to it.

poc




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