Default Google-Chrome

[Rick Stevens]

On 05/27/2015 10:03 PM, Dan Mossor wrote:
> On 05/27/2015 05:09 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> 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:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 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
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 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!
> Thanks Rick!  Thunderbird has been driving me up a wall for quite some
> time. On F20 and F21, it would open all links in FF when the system
> default browser was Google Chrome. Now in F22, I've switched to FF as my
> default browser, but T-bird opened all https links in emails with
> Konquerer. This fixes it.

Glad to be of service! There may be other ways to do this, but I know
this works.
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