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Thu Oct 12 00:51:50 CEST 2006

Firefox and Thunderbird

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I'm an enthusiastic user of Firefox and Thunderbird. I've
noticed that on some Linux distros, the two aren't integrated
per default. By integrated I mean:



In firefox,, clicking on a 'mailto:' URL won't open a
thunderbird 'write new mail' window.
In Thunderbird, clicking on an http/https URL won't open a firefox
window.


Here's how to fix it. 

Making a mailto: URL in Firefox open a Thunderbird window


Close all instances of Firefox on your machine.

Open file $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/$(grep ^Path
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini | awk -F= '{print
$2}')/user.js. Which is just a fancy way of saying your
{default profiledir}/user.js :)

Find the correct path to the thunderbird application. You
can use the which command in the shell to find
it. Oh, and on some distros the thunderbird binary is called
mozilla-thunderbird, fyi.

Add the following line:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/path/to/thunderbird");
Restart Firefox.


Making a http/https URL in Thunderbird open a Firefox
window

Close all instances of Thunderbird on your machine.
Open file $HOME/.thunderbird/$(grep ^Path
$HOME/.thunderbird/profiles.ini | awk -F= '{print
$2}')/user.js .
Find the path to firefox. Remember that on some distros,
firefox is called mozilla-firefox.

Add the following line to user.js:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");
Restart Thunderbird.


Quite simple stuff. And just fyi, I havent discovered this
all on my own- Im publishing this here on my blog just so that
I dont have to google for it each time I switch distros
(something I do much too often lately).

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