Monday, March 07, 2011

How To Make Thunderbird Open Links In KDE

Seems like the easiest way to make Thunderbird properly work on PCLOS using KDE is to do this:

  1. Go to the config editor (Edit->Preferences==>Advanced->General->Config Editor)
  2. Agree to the warning if it pops up
  3. Enter this into the filte box at the top: network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http
  4. Double-click each entry shown to change it to true.
  5. Close the Config Editor.
  6. Click a http or https link, and wait for the dialog box to open asking what application to use.
  7. Click on Choose and browse to a web browser ("/usr/bin/chromium-browser" for example)
  8. Place a check where it says to "Remember my choice" if desired.
  9. Profit!

This also works if you click an internal T-bird link, such as "Get Themes" in the Add-ons dialog box. There is a noticable delay before that box pops up tho in that case. Just wait a minute and all will be fine.

More details here at the PCLOS forums.