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Default browser for opening http links in thunderbird

Under SuSE 9.2 have set default browser to be firefox (set under componen setting ...control panel). Whenever I click on a http link in an email it always lauches mozilla browser, not firefox. I did have this working (found how to do this via a web page, but can't find it anymore), but recently upgraded to the latest version of thunderbird, and it lost the setting. I think you have to manually edit an entry in one of the java files. Has anyone had the same issue, and if so where is the line to edit??

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Go
Applications-->Preferencies-->More preferencies-->Preffered Applications
Choose Web Browser Tab.
Select the aplication you wish to be default browser.
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That would'nt work because this is a manual install of thunderbird, Plus thinderbird doesn't use KDE or GNOME api it uses java, which remains un-affected by the default browser you choose in the windows manager. You have to manually edit one of the files to point to the browser binary file.
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What window manager do you use then?
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KDE ,but I have already set firefox as my default browser, but any links in thunderbird emails get opened in mozilla in-spite of this.
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Found the link::

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html

need to add the following to the prefs.js file under /home/username/.thunderbird/mailboxname/prefs.js

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/path/to/firefox-binary");


Works like a charm..

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