Default browser problem -

[Steven Stern]

On 06/12/2011 11:22 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 12/06/11 11:11, James McKenzie wrote:
>> On 6/12/11 7:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>            F-15 and Firefox simply do not work as I want them to so I
>>>            installed Google Chrome to try it.
>>>
>>>            However when I click on a link in an e-mail message in
>>>            Thunderbird it keeps starting Firefox instead of the default
>>>            browser, Chrome.
>> Did you change the hypertext Application from Firefox to Chrome?
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
>
>
>          "hypertext Application"
>
>          Where do I find that?
>
>          "Preferred Applications" shows Chrome as the default. I probably
>          should have mentioned that this is F-15/XFCE although the
>          problem is with Mozilla Thunderbird so I would not expect the
>          desktop to cause the problem.
>
>          Bob
>          .
>

Something's seriously broken and changing the default apps just doesn't 
work consistently. This applies throughout the Gnome3 shell.  You need 
to edit ~/.thunderbird/yourprofile/ and edit mimeTypes.rdf:

Find and edit the stanzas referencing firefox. The should be for http, 
https, and ftp.

<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:scheme:externalApplication:http"
                    NC:prettyName="google-chrome"
                    NC:path="/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome" />
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:scheme:externalApplication:https"
                    NC:prettyName="google-chrome"
                    NC:path="/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome" /> 
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:scheme:externalApplication:ftp"
                    NC:prettyName="google-chrome"
                    NC:path="/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome" />



-- 
-- Steve