8.04: Thunderbird, open a link

http://hsmak.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/howto-force-thunderbird-to-open-links-in-firefox/

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Hey Peter

Ddit the ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/[profile_dir]/prefs.js file and add (or change) the following:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");

When clicking on a URL it should open a window asking you
to choose, click choose.
And then one more window will open and on the top left there
is a Icon to write it in, click it and copy and paste this in there:
/usr/bin/firefox

Then it will open one more window and check mark use always.

then continue. There it's done.

BUT there will be different kinds of URLs you will have to do that with.

So save this some where you can get easily.

/usr/bin/firefox

oocevin

marcobra: Thanks. But the site is out of date. If I activate about:config I don't have an entry called network.protocol-handler.app.http. Also the example of the preferences of Thubderbird is out of date.

wojox: Thanks. I don't have a file called .mozilla-thunderbird. But I found the file prefs.js. I inserted the two lines but nothing happened.

oocevin: Thanks. If I click on an URL in Thunderbird, nothing happens. This is the problem.

Thanks a lot.

It's strange, Firefox is installed in /usr/lib and not in /usr/bin. 8.04 installed it in /usr/lib. I downloaded it again and extracted it to /usr/bin. But without success.

Thanks a lot.
Peter

Try going to system setting and click on windows behavior
and click windows behavior in there, to the right you will see
Focus stealing prevention. Make it None.
Then below to the right click apply.

That should lit the window show up.

Hope this helps.

Let me know.

What do you mean whit system setting? System > Preferences? And what about windows behavior? Thanks.
Peter

I installed Firefox and Thunderbird in /usr/bin. But the situation is the same.
Peter

Try to right click with mouse on a web link included in a mail message... and modify properties...

Properties is not listed if I right click the link.
Peter

Only a curiosity is your system fully updated/upgraded...?

Please verify using the commands below...

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

I executed all the commands, without any problems. There where the database was involved always I got the following message: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. So I guess the system is up-to-date.

But the problem with Thunderbird is still the same.

I found the web site to install it as an Add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/2913/). But unfortunately the installation didn't work. It fails with the message Open all links 0.3.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Thunderbird 3.0.5.

Thanks.
Peter

When I first installed Kubuntu I had the same problem.
I would click on some thing and it would stay under
the window that is already opened. To make the
window you clicked on to pop up above the
other window you need to system setting and
click on windows behavior. Then inside that
click on the second in which is windows
behavior. And to the right it will say: Focus
stealing prevention, it's auto set to low.
It needs to be none.

Then below to the right click apply.
That should let the new window that
you open pop on top of the other
windows.

Then try to click on a URL in
thunderBird and the small window
should pop up and ask you to choose.

Click choose then an other window
will pop up. In the upper left hand
corner there is a Icon if you put
your cursor over it, it will say write
some thing click on that a bar will
appear copy and paste this in there:

/usr/bin/firefox

Then click open I think it says, in in the
lower right hand corner, then another
window and below it will ask if you
want to do this all the time, check
mark it yes. Then click on the
button in the lower right hand corner.

That is how I got my thunder Bird
to work when clicking on URLs.

You will have to do this a few times.

One for http:// and https://

Hope this helps you.

Let me know..

Sorry, oocevin, but I don't understand this.
Peter

The problem has solved!!! The problem was that Firefox was not defined as the standard browser. That's it.

Thanks a lot.
Peter

OK Have fun...

Thanks *l.
Peter