Firefox3 > Send Link > won't use Thunderbird
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 22 18:42:47 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 14:21 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> Sorry about that, I'am running KDE and I don't have
>
> gnome-control-center installed, do you know howto do this in KDE ?
> Thanks for your responds.
No I don't, but note that FF is a GTK application compiled with GTK
libraries so KDE has no direct way of controlling it. You could probably
edit the gconf files directly, but I don't recommend it. Just run "yum
install control-center". It won't get in the way of using KDE.
poc
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