Starting chromium as default browser in thunderbird: Difference between revisions
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Nothing helped, so I've found other solution: | Nothing helped, so I've found other solution: | ||
1) in Thunderbird go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Configuration Edito | 1) in Thunderbird go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Configuration Edito | ||
2) change | 2) change | ||
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http and | network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http and | ||
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https | network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https | ||
to "true" | to "true" | ||
3)Click on any link in tb | 3)Click on any link in tb | ||
4) navigate to /usr/bin/google-chrome | 4) navigate to /usr/bin/google-chrome | ||
5) have fun | 5) have fun | ||
Latest revision as of 15:09, 26 January 2012
Thunderbird seems to always start firefox when a link is clicked. This is bad behaviour.
The following command will start chromium:
gconftool-2 --type string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command "/usr/bin/chromium %s"
This works also in KDE
other solution: jan 2012
Nothing helped, so I've found other solution: 1) in Thunderbird go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Configuration Edito 2) change network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http and network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https to "true" 3)Click on any link in tb 4) navigate to /usr/bin/google-chrome 5) have fun