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

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:26:28 +0000 (GMT)
> David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org> 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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