Trouble opening links in Thunderbird

[Helder Terra]

Thanks for the help, but it still won't work.

I've tried the solution below, and the one I got from another user, to 
view the solution in the following link

http://www.michael-krueger.org/search/label/Thunderbird

but Thunderbird still opens a window (showing my Home folder) asking me 
to run an application.





----- Original Message -----
*From:* nadreck at palain.com <mailto:nadreck at palain.com>
*To:* Kubuntu user technical support 
<mailto:kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
*Sent:* Friday, June 18, 2010 2:22 PM
*Subject:* Re: Trouble opening links in Thunderbird

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 
<mailto: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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