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On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Steven Stern <subscribed-li...@sterndata.com> wrote: > On 06/12/2011 11:22 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> On 12/06/11 11:11, James McKenzie wrote: >>> On 6/12/11 7:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>>> F-15 and Firefox simply do not work as I want them to so I >>>> installed Google Chrome to try it. >>>> >>>> However when I click on a link in an e-mail message in >>>> Thunderbird it keeps starting Firefox instead of the default >>>> browser, Chrome. >>> Did you change the hypertext Application from Firefox to Chrome? >>> >>> James McKenzie >>> >> >> >> "hypertext Application" >> >> Where do I find that? >> >> "Preferred Applications" shows Chrome as the default. I probably >> should have mentioned that this is F-15/XFCE although the >> problem is with Mozilla Thunderbird so I would not expect the >> desktop to cause the problem. >> >> Bob >> . >> > > Something's seriously broken and changing the default apps just doesn't > work consistently. This applies throughout the Gnome3 shell. You need > to edit ~/.thunderbird/yourprofile/ and edit mimeTypes.rdf: > > Find and edit the stanzas referencing firefox. The should be for http, > https, and ftp. > > > As I noted in the other thread on this topic, this did not resolve my > problem. Matter of fact, my laptop running F15 using the very same rdf file > fails to open any browser from Thunderbird
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