Getting Thunderbird to open Links in Email

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 15:10 -0400, james tate wrote:
> On 07/15/2011 02:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 14:13 -0400, james tate wrote:
> >> FC15
> >>
> >> How do I get thunderbird to select Firefox when opening links in Emails.
> >>
> >> When clicking on Links in Emails nothing is happening.
> >>
> >> I can't find in Thunderbird Preferences a way to select Firefox.
> > It's not a Thunderbird preference, it's a desktop preference. If you use
> > Gnome, look under the settings panel. If on KDE you still have to use
> > the Gnome settings since TBird is a Gnome app. In that case, run
> > gnome-control-panel from the Shell and look for Preferred Applications.
> >
> > poc
> >
> In KDE it's Settings/Default Applications/Web Browser and my is set to 
> firefox,
> but it still won't open and use Firefox.
> 
> There is a execute file in /usr/bin/firefox
> 

To repeat: TBird is a *Gnome* app. It doesn't care about KDE settings.
Stupid but true.

poc