Getting Thunderbird and Firefox To Play Nice

[Guest jglen490]

Mandrake 10.1 with KDE 3.2.3

 

Thunderbird 1.0

Firefox 1.0.4

 

I've searched and tried the solutions. I've made the requisite changes in File Associations for .html but I still can't get Firefox to display a URL that I clicked on in T-Bird. Nothing against Konqueror, I just want Firefox to be my default Web browser for all actions.

 

Any thoughts?

[polemicz]

I believe both firefox and t'bird are gtk apps, so you should go through gnome-control-center (advanced and file associations or whatever it's called).

[bvc]

It's called Preferred Applications and if that doesn't do it use the gconf-editor

[ianw1974]

I've normally used gnome-default-applications-properties. Run this and it'll allow you to set default browser/email prog, etc.

[Guest jglen490]

Thanks for all the input guys!! However, none of these seem to apply. I'm using KDE, as noted in my original post, so the Gnome utilities are out. I think it has something to do with a user.js or prefs.js file somewhere, but I'll be darned if I can find an appropriate entry or reference.

[heather1113]

That's a problem people were talking about on another board I frequent, PCLinuxOnline, and someone wrote a shell script to fix the problem. I just e-mailed the person few minutes ago to e-mail it to me so either I can e-mail it to you or you can follow this link and e-mail helios for it.

 

http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?m...a8c802b58c847ed

 

hopefully this helps

[doutor.zero]

1- Open Thunderbird links in Firefox:

 

Open the console, log as root:

 

vi /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/pref/all-thunderbird.js

 

Add this lines at the end of the file:

 

// Open Thunderbird links in Firefox

pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox");

pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox");

pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox");

 

 

2 - Open Thunderbird after clicking in a 'mailto:' link in Firefox

 

Open the console, log as root:

 

vi /usr/lib/firefox/defaults/pref/firefox.js

 

Add this lines at the end of the file:

 

// Open 'mailto:' links in Thunderbird

pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird");

 

 

Atention: replace the paths for the location of FF/TB in your system

 

 

doutor.zero

[ianw1974]

Thanks for all the input guys!!  However, none of these seem to apply.  I'm using KDE, as noted in my original post, so the Gnome utilities are out.  I think it has something to do with a user.js or prefs.js file somewhere, but I'll be darned if I can find an appropriate entry or reference.

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Even though you are using KDE, it still applies to set using gnome-default-applications-properties. I use KDE also, and solved by setting the html to open with Firefox, and setting with gnome-default-applications-properties.

[Guest jglen490]

Even though you are using KDE, it still applies to set using gnome-default-applications-properties.  I use KDE also, and solved by setting the html to open with Firefox, and setting with gnome-default-applications-properties.

That sounds good, I think I've seen that solution somewhere else. The only reason I haven't tried it is because I did not install any of the Gnome apps or utilities. I did a "find" for anything beginning with "gnome-*" and nothing was returned, so I'm sure that I am in a Gnome-free zone :D .

 

I will try to make the entries in the "all-thunderbird.js" file, but I think I've found another solution, and it seems to be working. I found that my original installation of MDK 10.1 sets an environment variable that indirectly references Konqueror. Thunderbird must be basing its browser decision on the value of $BROWSER. I haven't yet found what sets this env var, but I seem to have found a way to re-set it to Firefox. I made the following entry in my ~/.bashrc file:

export BROWSER="/home/john/firefox1.0.4/firefox

This may require some tweaking, but for now it seems to work. Any comments?

[ianw1974]

You can always just install the gnome-control-center, which will give you the apps for configuring. Then you can use it for configuring all the gtk stuff that relies on gnome settings, rather than KDE settings.