Re: Thunderbird hyper-links

On 01/10/11 22:15, Rick Kunath wrote:
> On Saturday, October 01, 2011 07:04:53 am Phil wrote:
>> Thank you for reading this.
>>
>> How do I set-up Thunderbird to open hyper-links in Firefox?
>>
>> Google has provided quite a lot of information on this subject but, so
>> far, nothing has worked.
>>
>> I'm using Mandriva 2011.
>
> The settings to force Firefox to handle links are in the prefs.js file. This
> file is in a hidden directlry in your Home directory called: ".thunderbird/[a
> bunch of random characters].default/prefs.js. The "[random charachers]" should
> be replaced by whatever Thunderbird generated there when it installed the
> configuration files. ITHis will be unique to each user.
>
> pen the file using whatever editor you feel comfortable and add the following
> lines.
>
> Note: These three are each all on one line, but they'll probably get wrapped
> during the email send.
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp","/home/your user
> name/firefox/firefox");
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","/home/your user
> name/firefox/firefox");
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","/home/your user
> name/firefox/firefox");
>

I discovered that these entries need to go into user.ps. Even so, it 
still doesn't work. I have experimented with the directory path but to 
no avail.

Is there something else that could be amiss?

-- 
Regards,
Phil