Default Google-Chrome

[Rick Stevens]

On 05/27/2015 11:22 AM, Mickey wrote:
> Fedora 21/KDE
>
> I have in KDE Settings the Google-Chrome as default Web Browser.
>
> How do I setup that when I'm reading my Emails in Thunderbird and I
> click on a Web Link in a email and I want the link to open in Chrome,
> but it always opens in Firefox. How do I change that ?

Go to:

	Edit Menu->Preferences->Advanced

Click on the "General" tab. The lower right side will have a button:

	Config Editor...

Click on that button, and click the "I'll be careful, I promise"
button. Now you're in the config editor.

In the search box, enter "network.protocol-handler.app.http". Two
things are now possible:
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A) If nothing shows up, you need to add a couple of entries. Right-click
in the window and select "New->String". In the "New String Value"
window, type in

	network.protocol-handler.app.http

and hit ENTER or click "Ok". In the "Enter string value" window, put in
the FULL path to the chrome binary you want. In my case:

	/opt/google/chrome/chrome

Press ENTER again or click "Ok" and now you should have a new entry
that looks like:

	network.protocol-handler.app.http   user-set   string 
/opt/google/chrome/chrome

Repeat that process, but add "network.protocol-handler.app.https" to
handle "https://" links in your emails and you should have two entries:

	network.protocol-handler.app.http   user-set   string 
/opt/google/chrome/chrome
	network.protocol-handler.app.https  user-set   string 
/opt/google/chrome/chrome

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B) There are entries, but they're pointing somewhere else. In this case,
just double-click on the entry and in the pop-up window, put in the path
to your Chrome binary and press ENTER or click "Ok".

That oughta do it. Here's the link from Mozilla:

	http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird

Keep in mind the navigation path they talk about:

	Tools->Options->Advanced->General->Config editor

is aimed at Windows users. The equivalent for Linux is:

	Edit menu->Preferences->Advanced->General tab->"Config Editor..." button

that I talked about above. You will need to restart Thunderbird for
this to take effect.

Good luck!
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