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[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
> > Apologies for asking this question.
> >
> > Not too long ago someone had a problem of Firefox not being executed 
> > when s/he clicked on an URL mentioned in a msg in Thunderbird. The 
> > answer on how to resolve this problem was provided. After checking 
> > all places I could think of, I cannot find what the solution to this 
> > hassle is.
> >
> > Could someone please either give me the answer or provide the link 
> > where the answer is provided.
> >
> > (I've had TB and FF running now for years but they have been my own 
> > installations, ie directly from Mozilla and installed in my home 
> > directory. Last night I decided to use the Firefox as installed by 
> > openSUSE 11.0 -- and the wheels fell off :'( : I cannot 'call up' FF 
> > from TB.)
> >
> > Ciao.
>
> Basil,
>
>     I can't find the post either, but I think it is:
>
> Edit->Preferences->Config:Editor
>
> Add/Edit
>
> network.protocol-handler.app.ftp user         set string /usr/bin/firefox
> network.protocol-handler.app.http user         set string 
> /usr/bin/firefox
> network.protocol-handler.app.https user     set string /usr/bin/firefox

Thanks, David, but I tried this, as suggested by another person in a 
private msg to me, and it does not work.

I didn't use this "fix" in my previous installations of SuSE/openSUSE so 
didn't really think - but was hopefull! :-)  - that this "fix" would 
work, but it didn't.

I have solved the problem by installing both Thunderbird and Firefox as 
provided on the 11.0 DVD instead of "rolling my own" from Mozilla.org 
(which always worked in the past years).

Installing TB using YaST2 and running it, fortunately, had it recognise 
all the mail/settings I have in my (home) /.thunderbird directory so 
nothing was lost - and clicking on an URL in TB brings up FF.

(BTW, there is an error in the symlink for firefox in /usr/bin, 
"@firefox". This now shows "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.sh"; the '.sh' 
should not be there.)


Ciao.

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