[Novalug] Thunderbird links

[John Meagher]

YES!!!!
What great, fast, accurate advice!  Linux as it should be.
It works fine.

What you  read might have been this:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Integrate_Thunderbird_and_Firefox

Thanks, Ken

Regards,
John


Ken Kauffman wrote:
> - From what I've read -- Thunderbird will not open links by default.
> You need to edit:
>
> ~/.thunderbird/<randomprofileid>.default/prefs.js
>
> Add the following lines:
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox-bin");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox-bin");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox-bin");
>
> *Change 'firefox-bin' to your browser of preference.
>
> You will need to restart Thunderbird for this to go into effect.
>
> Another helpful tip:
> Create ~/.thunderbird/<randomprofileid>.default/chrome/userContent.css
> and add the following:
>
> /* Quote Levels Colors */
>         blockquote[type=cite] {
>            color: navy !important; background-color: RGB(245,245,245)
> !important;
>         }
>         blockquote[type=cite] blockquote {
>            color: maroon !important; background-color:
> RGB(235,235,235) !important;
>         }
>         blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote {
>            color: green !important; background-color: RGB(225,225,225)
> !important;
>         }
>         blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote {
>            color: purple !important; background-color:
> RGB(215,215,215) !important;
>         }
>         blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote
> blockquote {
>            color: teal !important; background-color: RGB(205,205,205)
> !important;
>         }
>
> This will give you colored/quoted levels inside thunderbird.
>
> John Meagher wrote:
> >> Hi all, I'm running a MEPIS setup: Linux version 2.6.15-26-386
> >> (root at mepis-party) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1
> >> PREEMPT Wed Jul 19 12:14:26 EDT 2006
> >>
> >> with Thunderbird 1.5.08 mail client.  It works fine except that
> >> when I click or double-click on a URL embedded in a received
> >> message, nothing happens except that the name of the clicked-on URL
> >> appears in the status line at the bottom of the Thunderbird message
> >> window.  It never gets passed to a browser. I have to cut and paste
> >> it into the browser.  I had the problem with 1.5.05 and just
> >> updated it to 1.5.08 but that had no effect.
> >>
> >> I'm using Firefox 1.5.08 also (interesting) which works normally.
> >> One click on a URL and it jumps.
> >>
> >> Do I have some preference set wrong somewhere?
> >>
> >> TIA John
> >>
> >>
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