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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: references from thunderbird
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:10:28
Message-Id: hg8m07$tjq$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: references from thunderbird by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On 12/15/2009 09:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 12/15/2009 07:25 PM, walt wrote:
3 >> On 12/15/2009 04:50 AM, zhen wrote:
4 >>> Hi.
5 >>> Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in
6 >>> firefox? I know there are options in about:config
7 >>> (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated
8 >>> firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links anymore.
9 >>> What else can I do to enable opening of links?
10 >>
11 >> It may depend on what desktop you use. In gnome, e.g., there is an item
12 >> in the System dropdown menu called "Preferred Applications" that must be
13 >> set properly because gnome (apparently) intercepts your mouse click.
14 >>
15 >> I don't know if kde has such a thing, but I'm guessing it does.
16 >
17 > It does, but Mozilla apps never honor it.
18
19 Interesting. Mozilla apps use the gnome USE flag but not the KDE flag.