Re: Open URLs in Icedove emails in Iceweasel, how?

[Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>]

Am 2015-06-19 16:52, schrieb Ken Heard:
> I am using Jessie with the latest versions of icedove (31.7.0-1) and
> iceweasel (31.7.0esr-1~deb-8ul) installed.  update-alternatives
> - --config x-www-browser already points to iceweasel %u.  In addition
> file ~/mozilla/icedove/9vgk89rr.default/user.js contains the 
> following
> two lines:
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "iceweasel %u");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "iceweasel %u")
>
> But still I cannot open URLs in icedove emails automatically in
> iceweasel.  What else do I need to do to activate this feature?

You can try to set a default browser explicitly:

xdg-mime default iceweasel.desktop x-scheme-handler/http \
    x-scheme-handler/https

Christian