Re: Send Link not working in Fire Fox
From: Rich Gibbs (rgibbs_at_REMOVEalumni.CAPSprinceton.edu)
Date: 04/25/05
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:40:27 -0400
John Bailo said the following, on 04/24/05 17:09:
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> I use Firefox as my browser and Thunderbird as my email.
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> When I do a "Send Link" in Firefox it doesn't create an email.
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> When I click on a link in Thunderbird, it launches Firefox though.
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I use Firefox for browsing, KMail for E-mail, and Thunderbird for news
(on this machine: Debian Sarge with KDE). I don't think I've ever tried
"Send Link ..." om Firefox before, so I just did, from the context menu.
It did work, though it took a couple of seconds. What happened appears
to be:
1. It opened an instance of Konqueror with a "mailto:" link as the URL.
2. Then it opened a KMail "Compose" window.
This explains why it wasn't quicker. It also makes sense to me. I
almost never click directly on a URL in E-mail (a habit left from my
late and unlamented Windows usage), but copy it to the clipboard and
paste it into the browser (which, for other reasons, I keep on a
different virtual desktop anyway). So I imagine KMail is still set to
use Konqueror as the default browser.
Anyway, I think what you need to do is a minor configuration adjustment
to Firefox. Open a tab or window with the URL 'about:config'. The
preferences you meed to change are under
'network.protocol-handler.expose' and
'network.protocol-handler.external', for the 'mailto' protocol.
See the following pages for more information:
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries>
<http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html>
(Incidentally, these are good references for options in Mozilla apps in
general.)
-- Rich Gibbs rgibbs@alumni.princeton.edu "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." (Richard Feynman)
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