On 05/27/2015 11:22 AM, Mickey wrote:
Fedora 21/KDE
I have in KDE Settings the Google-Chrome as default Web Browser.
How do I setup that when I'm reading my Emails in Thunderbird and I
click on a Web Link in a email and I want the link to open in Chrome,
but it always opens in Firefox. How do I change that ?
Go to:
Edit Menu->Preferences->Advanced
Click on the "General" tab. The lower right side will have a button:
Config Editor...
Click on that button, and click the "I'll be careful, I promise"
button. Now you're in the config editor.
In the search box, enter "network.protocol-handler.app.http". Two
things are now possible:
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A) If nothing shows up, you need to add a couple of entries. Right-click
in the window and select "New->String". In the "New String Value"
window, type in
network.protocol-handler.app.http
and hit ENTER or click "Ok". In the "Enter string value" window, put in
the FULL path to the chrome binary you want. In my case:
/opt/google/chrome/chrome
Press ENTER again or click "Ok" and now you should have a new entry
that looks like:
network.protocol-handler.app.http user-set string
/opt/google/chrome/chrome
Repeat that process, but add "network.protocol-handler.app.https" to
handle "https://"; links in your emails and you should have two entries:
network.protocol-handler.app.http user-set string
/opt/google/chrome/chrome
network.protocol-handler.app.https user-set string
/opt/google/chrome/chrome
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B) There are entries, but they're pointing somewhere else. In this case,
just double-click on the entry and in the pop-up window, put in the path
to your Chrome binary and press ENTER or click "Ok".
That oughta do it. Here's the link from Mozilla:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird
Keep in mind the navigation path they talk about:
Tools->Options->Advanced->General->Config editor
is aimed at Windows users. The equivalent for Linux is:
Edit menu->Preferences->Advanced->General tab->"Config Editor..." button
that I talked about above. You will need to restart Thunderbird for
this to take effect.
Good luck!
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