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By default, URLs in Thunderbird when clicked, do not open in either Firefox or Flock, or your favorite web browser. This is very annoying at times.
You can make this work using the following trick:
- If you are using Thunderbird 1.0.x (Help -> About)
- Upgrade to Thunderbird 1.5.x (seriously ;-))
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Close Thunderbird, and add the following lines in your user.js:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/path/to/browser");user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/path/to/browser");user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/path/to/browser");
For example, in my case,
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/local/flock/flock"); - If you are using Thunderbird 1.5.x
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- Open the Config Editor (Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced Tab, General)
- Right-click, New -> String
- Type “network.protocol-handler.app.http” (without quotes) as the preference name
- Type “/path/to/browser” (again, without quotes) as the preference value
For example, in my case,
name is
"network.protocol-handler.app.http"
value is"/usr/local/flock/flock"
Similarly in case you want to open “mailto” links in Thunderbird, you would add the following preference in Firefox/Flock:
Preference name "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", value "/path/to/thunderbird"
Again, you need to put this in either user.js or use about:config depending upon whether you use Firefox 1.0.x/1.5.x respectively. In case of Flock, you can enter the new preference in about:config.
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