Re: Thunderbird and Firefox

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:26:28 +0000 (GMT)
David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 
> > I'm having an odd problem with Thunderbird: when I receive email
> > with links, clicking on them doesn't open the links in Firefox.
> > That's rather odd...  Is there some option I'm missing.  I don't
> > see anything in the preferences menus.
> 
>       In your thunderbird prefs.js set
> 
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/pkg/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http",
> "/usr/pkg/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https",
> "/usr/pkg/bin/firefox");

Thanks; that did it.
> 
>       I have nfi why this is not exposed in the UI...
> 
Nor I why it's not the default, unless it's some misguided
anti-phishing strategy.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb