URL in message does not work. RESOLVED

[Ignazio Palmisano]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> One of the suggestions of the many answers to this problem suggested 
> that I install Firefox.  I did.  Apparently changes have been made in 
> that application that affect Thunderbird, because I clicked on a link 
> from a recent email and the link worked.  It works, however, I don't 
> know how any interested reader will get much from the solution.  The 
> most common response was to edit prefs.js, however, I was confused by 
> the "don't edit" comments to the page when it opened and there were 8 
> entries for prefs.js, some not writable, all saying to not edit, so I 
> never edited anything unless that happened automatically when I 
> installed Firefox.  I am glad it works, however I have no idea what made 
> it happen.

Good to know it works. The reason prefs.js says: do not edit, is that 
that's not the right file to edit.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file says the modifications, if you 
want to do them by hand, go to user.js. Anyway, if I had to do that I'd 
go through the automated tools instead. Easier and less of a headache.
I.