It's been driving me mad for months why sometimes when I click on a URL in Thunderbird it opens it in Firefox, and sometimes it opens it in Epiphany or Galeon or something like that (even though I use KDE). I couldn't see a pattern - was it to do with whether it was a body URL or in the header? Was it particular sites (Bugzilla seemed never to work)? I finally figured it out; it's down to this small but important sentence in the instructions:
Repeat [this configuration change] for each protocol you want Thunderbird to dispatch (https, ftp, etc.).
So http:// URLs were being correctly dispatched, but https:// ones (including, of course, Bugzilla) were not. If anyone else is similarly incapable of following instructions, perhaps this blog post might help them.
Posted by gerv at July 9, 2005 11:41 AMNice! I wonder if there is a bug open for the UI for this?
Posted by: Brian King at July 9, 2005 2:25 PMGerv, I think you were looking for this a few months back. I wanted to do this for Linux and found the methods to set preferences to do this. It has worked pretty fine till now. I comment on one of your blog posts then with details.
And yes, those intructions work for me in KDE without fail.
Posted by: KDS at July 9, 2005 4:36 PMI don't have this problem, but thank you for linking to that page. When I upgraded to Gnome 2.10, the preferred application for the web browser got reset, and after that every time I clicked a link in any other application, it tried to open firefox in a new profile. I knew there was something I had to add to the path to firefox, but couldn't remember what it was. When I saw %s on that page, though, it clicked into place, and now everything's back to normal. :-)
Posted by: dolphinling at July 10, 2005 6:32 AM