====== Open Links in Firefox ======
===== Intro =====
I had this problem on my [[http://gentoo.org|Gentoo]] boxes where you click on a link sent in an email and it opens nothing.  This is similar to a reverse problem of opening mailto links in Thunderbird found [[apps:firefox:openmailto|here]].  Just follow these directions and soon you will have your links opening in Firefox (or a different browser with a slight modification).

===== The Fix =====
You will need to go into your Thunderbird profile to do this.  In your home directory, you should have a hidden directory named ''.thunderbird''.  If you don't have that, you may have something similar like ''.mozilla-thunderbird''.  Open the ''.thunderbird'' directory.

In the ''.thunderbird'' directory, you should have something similar to this:

<code |ls -l ~/.thunderbird>
$ ls -l
total 9
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdeiman jdeiman 335 Feb 27 12:06 appreg
drwx------ 3 jdeiman jdeiman 160 Feb 27 15:00 eclipse
drwx------ 6 jdeiman jdeiman 960 May 10 15:02 nnx9f70w.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdeiman jdeiman  94 Feb 27 12:06 profiles.ini
</code>

Your default profile directory is the one entitled ''<some characters>.default''.  Open that directory.

Now, all that's left is to create a file called ''user.js'' and put the following lines in it (modify appropriately to reflect your path to the firefox binary):

<code javascript|~/.thunderbird/nnx9f70w.default/user.js>
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");
</code>

Now, just restart Thunderbird and your links should open up in Firefox.