Thunderbird fires off MANY tabs in Firefox

[Douglas Phillipson]

Wulfy wrote:
> Kelly L. Fulks wrote:
>   
>> Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> When reading some emails in Thunderbird, Firefox fires up and loads 
>>> dozens of tabs with small pictures, that are present in the selected 
>>> email.  This is quite annoying and I can't seem to figure out how to 
>>> stop it.  Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Doug P
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> I see this on occasion with https, but not with http links.  Upon
>> investigation I discovered that network.protocol-handler.external.https
>> was set to "true".  If it is set to false, then this doesn't happen.  I
>> also noticed that a couple of my extensions tried to open their update
>> location in firefox when this was set to true.  Unfortunately, if it is
>> set to "false", I can't click on an https link that is included in an
>> email and have it open in firefox either.
>>
>> I haven't found a complete solution, but at least I know what to change
>> when to do what I need to do properly.  Actually, I usually just copy
>> and paste the few https links that I get in email that I really want to see.
>>
>>   
>>     
> Add two new strings in Edit/Preferences/Advanced Config Editor:
>
> network.protocol-handler.app.http firefox
> network.protocol-handler.app.https firefox
>
> set network.protocol-handler.external-* to false except 
> n.p-h.external-default
>
> When you click on an http(s) link, it then fires up Firefox...  :@)
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>   
Thanks, I'll give this a try...  Actually

network.protocol-handler.external.http was set to true, so I'll set it to false and see if that fixes it...


Doug P