Trouble opening links in Thunderbird

[nadreck at palain.com]

I know in general what is required, but you will have to do a little research. I
am at work on a Windows computer and don't have all of my resources available.
What you need to do is go to Tools-->Options-->Advanced, and click the button
for Config Editor. This brings up the Javascript "about:config" file, very
similar to the one in Firefox, and what you need to do next is either enter or
modify the string that tells it to use Firefox. If I were on my home computer I
could see what I used, but it is sometihng like network.protocol.handler. I
think if you Google it you will find it easily.
 
Regards,
 

On June 18, 2010 at 4:57 PM Helder Terra <helder.earth at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just found out about this, and I'm not even sure if it's a common Lucid
> bug, but here it goes:
>
> Ever since I've installed Kubuntu Lucid both in my home and office
> computers, I've set Firefox as my default browser and Thunderbird as my mail
> client. And sure, Dragon Player is my video player too.
>
> But, for some reason, every time I get a link in a mail message, or a video
> file attached, it doesn't run at all. Instead of opening the link on Firefox
> or the video file on Dragon, it opens a window asking me to choose a default
> program for the action.
>
> It only happens with these two types of file. My office files open perfectly
> in OpenOffice from Thunderbird.
>
> Now, Kubuntu have asked me to do this in the past, and opened a list of my
> menu applications so I could choose one. But in this one situation is
> another window. One that shows only my Home folder, so I can't locate the
> software I want to open the file.
>
> Is there a way to make Thunderbird know what program should run each file?
> And it that windows of my Home folder, how can I locate Firefox or Dragon
> Player?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Helder Terra
>
>
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