Re: Mozilla-Thunderbird and URL Links?

From: Paul Morgan (paulswm_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:55:25 -0500

    On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:02:02 -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote:

    > How do I get Thunderbird to open a link when I click on it? I know that
    > Thunderbird is only a mail/news client, so it can't open it directly, but
    > where do I tell it which browser to open links in? I have several browsers
    > available (Konqueror, Opera, Mozilla-Firebird), but it does not use any of
    > them. What am I missing, here?
    >
    > Marc Shapiro
    >

    You don't say what version you are using. The "open link in browser"
    stuff doesn't work in 0.3. It apparently does in 0.4, but still requires
    some setup.

    It took me like 30 seconds to find this in the Thunderbird release notes:

    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html 

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