Showing posts with label Thunderbird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thunderbird. Show all posts

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.