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Re: [opensuse] Using Thunderbird with Firefox
  • From: Wolfgang Rosenauer <stark@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:49:20 +0100
  • Message-id: <20051102094920.GA15024@xxxxxxx>
On 2005-11-02 at 10:37:35 +0100, David Geiger wrote (shortened):

> Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> >On 2005-10-31 at 19:39:32 -0500, jim wrote (shortened):
> >
> >
> >>How do you set Firefox to use Thunderbird as default mail ?
> >>
> >
> >You should register Thunderbird as default url-handler for mailto links.
> >This can be done within gconf-editor or by using the menu in Thunderbird
> >prefs.
> >
> I can't find anything like that neither in Thunderbird nor in Firefox
> prefs. Can you please explain it in detail?

I'm not sure anymore if it works in 1.0.x correctly.
So just use gconf-editor to set it.

desktop -> gnome -> url-handlers -> mailto

put in /usr/bin/thunderbird %s


CU,

Wolfgang

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