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apps:firefox:openmailto [2007/05/11 18:46] – crustymonkey | apps:firefox:openmailto [2007/05/11 18:58] (current) – crustymonkey |
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I'm not sure about other distros, but on [[http://gentoo.org|Gentoo]], when you click on a "mailto" link in a web page, it will not open in an //anything// by default. The purpose of this is to show you how to have it use Thunderbird to open the mailto links. There is also a sister page going over the similar process to open links in emails that you receive with Thunderbird in Firefox. That can be found [[apps:thunderbird:openlinks|here]]. | I'm not sure about other distros, but on [[http://gentoo.org|Gentoo]], when you click on a "mailto" link in a web page, it will not open in an //anything// by default. The purpose of this is to show you how to have it use Thunderbird to open the mailto links. There is also a sister page going over the similar process to open links in emails that you receive with Thunderbird in Firefox. That can be found [[apps:thunderbird:openlinks|here]]. |
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Your default profile directory is the one entitled ''<some characters>.default''. Open that directory. | Your default profile directory is the one entitled ''<some characters>.default''. Open that directory. |
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Now, all that's left is to create a file called ''user.js'' and put the following line in it: | Now, all that's left is to create a file called ''user.js'' and put the following line in it (modify appropriately to reflect your path to the thunderbird binary): |
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<code javascript> | <code javascript|~/.mozilla/firefox/g8mizwd9.default/user.js> |
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/usr/bin/thunderbird"); | user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/usr/bin/thunderbird"); |
</code> | </code> |