David C. Rankin said the following on 11/14/2008 06:55 PM:
Listmates,
Another quirky question, is there any way to configure thunderbird on 11.0 to make it open another browser besides firefox when you click a link in a mail message? I searched the config:editor on network, browser, fire, helper, but nothing looked like a browser change. It seems to be ignoring the KDE "Component Chooser" setting of Opera regarding the default browser.
Yes. It comes in two parts. First, you need to set T'Bird to execute a shell script when clicking on a URL. I have ~/.thunderbird/openlink.sh It has this in it: #!/bin/sh BROWSER=${BROWSER-/usr/bin/firefox} url="$1" if [ "x$url" = "x" ]; then url="about:blank" fi exec ${BROWSER} -remote "openurl($url, new-tab)" YMMV. To get to this I have in my user.js for T'Bird: // Use browser for http, https & ftp links user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "~/.thunderbird/openlink.sh"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "~/.thunderbird/openlink.sh"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "~/.thunderbird/openlink.sh"); You may need to fully expand the ~/ I found the basis for this via Google many years ago and it has served me well after a few modifications :-) I suppose it depends on how much you want hard coded. -- "We hear very little and we understand even less" - An anonymous Englishman, The opening scene of Cassablanca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org