* On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:40:41PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > * On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:06:53PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: > > When I click on a link in my email client (Thunderbird v 1.5.0.9), my > > browser (Firefox v 2.0.0.2) opens, but with a blank page, rather than > > with the page I want to open. That's a recent and annoying change from > > past practice. I now have to copy the link location in Thunderbird, open > > Firefox and then paste in the address. > > Leslie, I haven't got access to an Ubuntu machine ATM - under > administration or preferences there's an applet for 'preferred > applications' or something like that. Check that Thunderbird is listed > for email, and check at the command line that the specified command > opens Thunderbird.
System, Preferences, Preferred Applications I meant to say 'Firefox is listed under preferred applications'. On my system 'Web Browser' is set to 'Open link in a new tab', with the command being 'firefox -remote "openurl(%s,new-tab)"' (no single quotes). -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
