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I don't know about you, but I have NEVER been able to simply click a link in an email displayed in Mozilla Thunderbird and have it open itself in a browser. After spending so much time looking through the preferences that I practically had it memorized, I still never found a way to tell Thunderbird to open links in FireFox (or any other browser, for that matter). I even had KDE configured to handle http: and https: with no luck.
Well, I have finally figured it out!
Configuring Thunderbird
I'm not sure about other versions of Thunderbird, but you can configure v1.5 to open links in your browser of choice by following these handy instructions:
- Open Thunderbird
- Open the 'Preferences' dialog from the 'Edit' Menu
- Click the 'Advanced' button at the top of the Preferences dialog
- Select the 'General' tab, and the look towards the bottom of the dialog and click the 'Config Editor...' button
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A new dialog should appear with a list box containing many configuration directives. Right-click any of them and select 'New' -> 'String'
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In the first prompt, enter
network.protocol-handler.app.httpand click 'OK' -
A second prompt will appear in it's place. I this one, enter the full path to your favorite browser (i.e.
/usr/bin/firefox) and click OK
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Follow the previous step again for
network.protocol-handler.app.https -
Add a third directive for
network.protocol-handler.app.ftpif you wish. Specify the path to an FTP client if you'd rather open FTP links in that instead of your browser. (Skip this step if you don't care about handling FTP links.)
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