Re: Thunderbird and Firefox

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:26:28 +0000 (GMT)
> David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >
> > > I'm having an odd problem with Thunderbird: when I receive email
> > > with links, clicking on them doesn't open the links in Firefox.
> > > That's rather odd...  Is there some option I'm missing.  I don't
> > > see anything in the preferences menus.
> >
> >         In your thunderbird prefs.js set
> >
> > user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/pkg/bin/firefox");
> > user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http",
> > "/usr/pkg/bin/firefox");
> > user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https",
> > "/usr/pkg/bin/firefox");
>
> Thanks; that did it.
> >         I have nfi why this is not exposed in the UI...
> Nor I why it's not the default, unless it's some misguided
> anti-phishing strategy.

        Would anyone object to having this set by default in the pkgsrc
        package?

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