URL's in Thunderbird

[Willy Hamra]

On 05/11/2008, Neil Winchurst <barnaby at drofle.com> wrote:
> I have Gutsy and Hardy set up with dual boot. I am looking to move to
> Hardy as my main distro. I have sorted out most problems, but one still
> beats me.
>
> I use two email clients, Thunderbird and Sylpheed. When an email
> contains a URL reference I like to be able to click on it and to have
> Firefox open up in the correct site. If there is a graphic attachment I
> like to click on it and see it opened in the program of my choice,
> usually Gwenview.
>
> In Gutsy this works fine with both email clients. In Hardy this still
> works in Sylpheed but not in Thunderbird. Clicking on a URL or an
> attachment has no effect. I have searched and compared TB in both Gutsy
> and Hardy but cannot find any differences.
>
> Can anyone suggest where I look next or help in any way please?
>

that's weird, because i'm very sure URLs were opening correctly with
firefox in Hardy, using thunderbird. are you sure firefox is set up as
the default web browser? i'm not on my PC right now, but i think there
is an option in thunderbird toset which browser to use when you click
on an URL, i'm not sure though.

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.