Add Handlers on Firefox and Thunderbird

Tuesday Oct 23, 2007

It's quite annoying when you click on a link on Thunderbird but no browser (Mozilla or Firefox) is launched, and vice versa. It's actually quite simple to fix this by adding handlers on Firefox or Thunderbird.

1. go to 'about:config' editor
   for Firefox, just type 'about:config' on address bar
   for Thunderbird, click on 'Edit/Preferences' menu, a dialog pops up
         then click on 'Config Editor' button on 'Advanced/General' tab
   
   
2. right click on any existing entry, click 'New/String' menu
   for Firefox, enter 'network.protocol-handler.app.mailto' on first dialog,
         then '/usr/bin/thunderbird %s' on second dialog (*).
   for Thunderbird, enter 'network.protocol-handler.app.http' on first dialog,
        then '/usr/bin/firefox -new-tab "%s"'.
   
   
3. repeat step 2 for Thunderbird to add other handlers
   network.protocol-handler.app.https
   network.protocol-handler.app.ftp
   
   
   

That's it!

(*) Note that the actual path name for firefox and thunderbird may vary on your environment.
(*) Note #2: this works on all versions of Firefox, but only version 1.5 or later for Thunderbird.

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Posted at 05:23PM Oct 23, 2007 by Simford Dong in General
Tags: mozilla