Re: Iceweasel annoyance

[Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>]

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 18:51 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I shouldn't blame Iceweasel, because when I used to use Firefox it did
> the same thing. And they are not the only apps that annoy me with this
> "feature."
> 
> What is this annoyance? 

Why annoyance?
Your email subject would have been way more descriptive if it was:
"Changing the e-mail program used by Iceweasel"

> I am on a web page and there is a link for Contact Us. I know little of
> html, but I think the code behind the link is "mailto." [..]
> 
> So I went into Preferences > Applications in Iceweasel and noted that
> for mailto only Yahoo mail and Gmail were listed. I don't want to use
> either of them; I want it to launch a Compose Message window in
> Sylpheed.

... and if you google for:
 "Changing the e-mail program used by firefox"

then guess what, the first answer is:
 http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Changing+the+e-mail+program+used+by+Firefox


BTW, And you can claim it :
   "Firefox 3.5.5 was my idea"
(because you can select your local program)

note: the solution in this email are 100% not-tested !

Franklin