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lovinglinux
Asked: 2010-10-21 20:32:55 +0800 CST

How to make Thunderbird open links in Firefox? [duplicate]

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I'm trying to use Thunderbird again, but I can't make it use Firefox to open links. I'm using KDE and Firefox is my default browser. I tried the network.protocol-handler method but it doesn't work.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    To open links in thunderbird so that they will open firefox or chrome or opera, you open preferences, attachments, and click on use other and navigate to the browser that you want to use.

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  2. It seems that thunderbird uses sensible-browser, that actually tests for the following alternatives: gnome-www-browser and x-www-browser; so what you need to do is manage your altenatives with:

    sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser
sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

    And the choose Firefox for those.

    Probably you'd only need to update x-www-browser since you're using KDE.

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