[PLUG] Directing mailto in Firefox to Thunderbird

[Tony Rick]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>wrote:

> What is the concept I have to read up on to figure out how to tell
> Firefox on my Ubuntu Hardy machine to open a new e-mail composition
> window in Thunderbird instead of trying to get me to set up Evolution
> when I click on a mailto link?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
> www.dicksteffens.com
>
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Here's what I've been doing.  It's lower level, but firefox specific.  The
location of the  Prefered Applications control
keeps wandering around, but the firefox control seems to be stable.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_mail_client

See heading 'Setting email client for Firefox in Linux' near the bottom.

- tony