Default Google-Chrome
Temlakos
temlakos at gmail.com
Sat May 30 14:17:43 UTC 2015
On 05/27/2015 06:09 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!
I tried all of the above. I have the user-set strings defined for my
particular instance of Google Chrome.
And it accomplishes precisely nothing.
I'm using Thunderbird version 31.7.0 on F22. And still the links resolve
by starting Firefox, not Chrome.
Where else do I need to reset something?
Temlakos
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