[opensuse] Re: 10.3: thunderbird does not open weblinks

Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Hi,

I am using 10.3/32bit with KDE and use Thunderbird/Mozilla for Mail and
Surfing the web.

I did a clean install from scratch, not an update. However I preserved
my /home/username directory.

With 10.2 I had thunderbird open firefox when I clicked on a web link
inside a mail.

Now I found to my surprise, that this no longer works. When I click on a
weblink, nothing happens.

I installed the about:config extension for thunderbird and found that
the strings for
network.protocol-handler.app.http
and network.protocol-handler.app.https
did NOT exist.

I added them and set the values appropriately to /usr/bin/firefox and
now it works.

That's not the proposed solution (at least not mine).
I haven't used Thunderbird on 10.3 for production but it should still
work, if firefox is set as your default http url-handler in gconf.

Could you please check if that's the case by opening gconf-editor and
looking up the keys
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http
and
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https

If there is Firefox in there please open a bug :-(

Wolfgang

Thanks Wolfgang,

sorry, I am using KDE, do not have gnome installed, except for the
minimum dependencies that I need.

Therefore I got no gconf-editor installed.

How can I check this on KDE and/or manually?

Thanks and regards
Eberhard

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