Hi, How does one configure a custom preferred web browser that opens when clicking on a link in an email in thunderbird? I installed a trunk build of Firefox in /opt/firefox but when I specify "/opt/firefox/firefox -P exp" as a preferred application then I only get a new window with the default mozilla homepage and not the url i clicked on. I also called a shell-script that dumps $* into a logfile which ends up empty so I wonder how that URL is passed to the called app if not as a parameter?
Regards, Dennis
On 10/19/2009 08:51 PM, Dennis J. wrote:
Hi, How does one configure a custom preferred web browser that opens when clicking on a link in an email in thunderbird? I installed a trunk build of Firefox in /opt/firefox but when I specify "/opt/firefox/firefox -P exp" as a preferred application then I only get a new window with the default mozilla homepage and not the url i clicked on. I also called a shell-script that dumps $* into a logfile which ends up empty so I wonder how that URL is passed to the called app if not as a parameter?
Start Thunderbird and..
Edit --> Preferences --> Advanced --> Config Editor --> Filter --> network.protocol-handler.app.http enter path to browser exec.. for example /usr/bin/firefox
or add an entry "user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox"); " to the prefs.js file....
JBG