mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

[Frank McCormick]

On 05/04/13 01:15 PM, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 10:59 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
>> O
>> It's there. Again, the issue is NOT that Thunderbird is not getting
>> launched, but the word "mailto:" appears in the email address if
>> launched from a link in Chrome.  The address is just fine when the link
>> comes from Firefox.
> Maybe it's the version of Chrome your using that might be the issue, or
> does it do it on all of them?  Are you up to date, and if so, you using
> stable, beta, unstable?  Might try a different one.  Or, to see if it's
> how Chrome is seeing the code on mailto: stuff, when see one, go to the
> settings/tools/developers (I think) and see what the html code already
> it looks like.  Might just be a bug, but I don't have that problem on
> chrome/evolution (although you use thunderbird).  You might try diff
> email just to test if evo or kmail or something does the same thing?
>


    Here's the strange thing about Chrome - I switched over this morning 
to my Debian
Sid partition  where I had been using Gmail to handle mailto links in 
Chrome. I followed the
instructions I had posted in this thread earlier to switch to 
Thunderbird...and now Chrome just opens a blank tab
when I click on a mailto link! Thunderbird is the default mail program 
in my installation. But
for some unknown reason Chrome doesn't recognize it. I was using IceWm. 
When I switch to Gnome,
Chrome opens Sylpheed (a mail program I used to use) which is still on 
the drive! It sems Chrome's
handling of mailto is bizarre. I am now trying to figure out how to get 
it to recognize Thunderbird which is
the default mail handler.


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