Re: OT: Howto set Mozilla Firefox mailto links

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

Tommy Trussell wrote:

> Here is the technique I just used to make mailto links point from
> Firefox to Thunderbird. This is for Firefox 1.0 (don't know about any
> others):
>
> 1) Launch Firefox and view the configuration strings using the URL
>    about:config  
>
> 2) using the field at the top, search for
>    mailto
>
> 3) If you do NOT have network.protocol-handler.app.mailto (normally
> you don't), create it using these steps:
>   a) right-click
>   b) choose New --> String
>   c) new string: network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
>   d) new value: /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird

Thank you, Thank you for this, Tommy! This has been one of those quirky 
little things I've been unable to resolve using 2 or 3 gui tools, no 
luck. I applied your config fix and pow! a link on a Firefox page pops 
me up a T-bird compose window.

I >really< appreciate your passing on the tip!  --Harvey