One other thing that really enoyed me when moving over to 9.10 was that links in thunderbird open the wrong browser. As firefox is a nice browser but it takes for ever to start, I have started to use chrome as my web-browser. and I am fairly happy with it. Its stable and works well. But when I am running thunderbird (mail-client) and get a mail with a link in, I would prefere that it open chrome. As it was it opens firefox.
After googleing something about it i found the solution. First you have to make some changes to thunderbird.
Go into the config editor:
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Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Config Editor |
Then adding two new config strings:
network.protocol-handler.app.http
network.protocol-handler.app.https
and setting them both to the value ‘x-www-browser’.
That will tell thunderbird to use the debian alternative system for what to start when following a link. So when this done it will now open konqurer as the broswer – not really what I wanted.
No we need to fix the alternative system. This is done with the command:
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sudo update-alternatives --verbose --config x-www-browser |
and select chrome as you default bowser. For me that was number 2. And now thunderbird will open the links in chrome.