Getting Thunderbird to open Links in Email

james tate binarynut at comcast.net
Fri Jul 15 19:54:13 UTC 2011


On 07/15/2011 03:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 15:31 -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
>>>
>> Patrick I can't find gnome-control-panel in the fc15 repos.
> It's gnome-control-center. Sorry, I keep getting that wrong.
>
> poc
>
Thanks for the help Patrick.
Ran gnome-control-center, and under /System/System Info/Default 
Applications I made the changes and it is working normal in Thunderbird 
now.


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