Default browser problem -

[Tim Evans]

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> As I noted in the other thread on this topic, this did not resolve my problem.  Matter of fact, my laptop running F15 using the very same rdf file fails to open any browser from Thunderbird
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