If you use Mozilla Thunderbird with KDE you already know that by default Thunderbird open hyperlinks in konqueror. If konqueror your main browser - this post is not for you
First thing that we need to do is create shell script:
#!/bin/bash
url="$1"
exec /path/to/firefox "$url"
Save that script to Thunderbird default folder. In my case: ~/.mozilla-thunderbird
Now, make that script executable.
Please close Thunderbird and open file prefs.js in your favorite text editor. You can find that file inside Thunderbird profile directory. For example:
~/.mozilla-thunderbird/XXXXXX.default/prefs.js
Now you need add following strings to the end of prefs.js
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/openlink.sh");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/openlink.sh");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/openlink.sh");
Where openlink.sh file shell script that we saved before.
Now just start Thunderbird and click to any link. It should always open it in Firefox.
I don’t know why Thunderbird didn’t use system default browser either i dont know why there is no settings about broswer in Thunderbird Preferences. I hope this will be fixed sometime, because way above is not clear and not portable. Usually same methods called “hack”
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