Firefox3 > Send Link > won't use Thunderbird
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Jun 23 15:28:13 UTC 2008
Jim wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
> Boy that sure is a weird way of having to set it up, but that did the
> trick , Thanks for the help
> Even tho I'm not a Gnome user, I think I'll keep that Gnome-control-center.
> Jim
>
On F8 I am using the REMI version of Thunderbird and FF3 with no issues
on KDE.
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Robin Laing
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