On 05/27/2015 10:03 PM, Dan Mossor wrote:
On 05/27/2015 05:09 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
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!
Thanks Rick! Thunderbird has been driving me up a wall for quite some
time. On F20 and F21, it would open all links in FF when the system
default browser was Google Chrome. Now in F22, I've switched to FF as my
default browser, but T-bird opened all https links in emails with
Konquerer. This fixes it.
Glad to be of service! There may be other ways to do this, but I know
this works.
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