default browser settings in Thunderbird changed by updates overnight [Solved]

[Claude Jones]

On 12/25/2011 10:13 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I think it has do do with FireFox and TBird being gtk apps while KDE
> apps are qt.  Anyway all is back the way I want it...so maybe you need
> to try something similar.

Bingo! I logged off KDE and in to Gnome. Fired up Firefox and went to: 
Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General/System Defaults and there I could 
click the button to check and see if Firefox was the default browser. It 
replied that Firefox was not the default and did I want to change that, 
to which I assented.

In retrospect, I probably could have just gone into the Firefox 
preferences and changed Firefox to the default browser while logged into KDE

Thunderbird weblinks now open Firefox, or a new tab in Firefox if it's 
already running. I still don't understand how Chrome became the default 
browser...

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA