Re: mozilla firefox about:config

[Jeff <debian@waysoft.com>]

Peter Easthope wrote:
> I've spent a good part of the day trying to
> arrange that thunderbird is invoked when
> I click on a mailto link in the firefox.
>
> I created the file
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/qi0tjy0b.default/user.js
> containing the line
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/home/peter/firefox.mailto.sh"); 
>
>
> Yet about:config in firefox lacks the
> network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
> record.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,            Peter Easthope

Not sure why user.js is not working (did you look in prefs.js to see if 
your mailto entry was copied?).  You can try to shut down all instances 
of firefox and update prefs.js directly.  You could also try to 
right-click on about:config and add the mailto entry from there.

Jeff