Try this:
> Make sure Mozilla is not running. Create a plain text file named
> 'user.js' in your profile directory (where you'll find a file named
> 'prefs.js'). Add the following line to said file:
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);
>
> The next time you launch Mozilla all mailto: links will be handled by
> the application selected in the Email tab of the Internet pane in the
> System Prefs app. The same thing applies to other protocols. Just
> replace mailto in the example above with the desired protocol, such
> as ftp.
but use http as the protocol!
-N
Pete Waring wrote:
> Thanks Jay -
>
> I tried this, and it works great except for one thing. When you
> click on a link from within an e-mail you're reading in Moz
> Mail/News, it still insists on opening it using the Moz browser, even
> if IE is set as the default browser.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't get it to open using IE
> instead (of course I wish I didn't still feel like I needed to!)
>
> Pete
>
>
>> You don't have to use the browser. You can select IE to be your
>> default browser while Mozilla is your default mail app, it's in the
>> prefs.
>>
>> In Control/Panel - "Internet Options" choose to force IE to ASK to
>> be the default browser, answer yes when loading IE.
>>
>> In your desktop "shortcut" for Mozilla, right-click the shortcut,
>> choose "properties/shorcut" and add -mail to the command line, such
>> as:
>>
>> " .... /Mozilla.exe" -mail
>>
>> This will bring up ONLY the mail/news component.
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