Re: Thunderbird and Firefox

[Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79%yahoo.com@localhost>]

--- David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>       Would anyone object to having this set by default in the pkgsrc
>       package?
> 
> -- 
>               David/absolute       -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --
> 

Yes. Just because. Ok, its really because they are meant to be
seperate: if you want integration with mail/web, use seamonkey (I
assume that is in pkgsrc).


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