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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:34:15 +0100
To: Roman Stöckl-Schmidt <roman@stoeckl-schmidt.de>

Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote:
> Matthew Exon wrote on 25.03.2005 14:43:
> |> I'd like to set thunderbird to use firefox as the browser to open
> |> links in mail messages, but can't find any setting in preferences for
> |> this. It always uses Epipheny.
> |
> | This is a Gnome thing, not a thunderbird thing. If you go to the
> | Applications menu, then "Desktop Preferences / Advanced / Preferred
> | Applications", then there's a Web Browser tab that allows you to select
> | "Firebird/FireFox".
> Well admittedly I don't use GNOME but imho the preferred way to do this
> is to add the following lines to your
> ~/.mozilla-firefox/$profiledir/prefs.js:
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");

Nowadays I'm trying to avoid fooling around inside configuration text
files. GUIs should stay GUI, IMO.

> |> - When I try to save an attachment, I don't get a directory window
> |> to choose where to save the file.
> |
> | Yep: lame, isn't it?
> Uhhm, I don't see that behavior here. Could you guys explain exactly
> what the specific situation was, or doesn't it matter what type of file
> it is?
> When I want to save an attachment tb opens a normal save-window like any
> other kde app does so I guess it uses the underlying toolkit of the
> desktop environment in place, so it probably should be using a gtk-based
> ~ save-window. I'm not a wizard when it comes to the specifics though
> which you can probably guess from my wording =)

Actually I take it back: I realise I was thinking of firefox. When
firefox downloads a file it allows you to choose "Save to disk" but not
to choose *where* on the disk. Thunderbird does allow you to choose
where the attachment goes, however, at least for me.

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