I'm unable to make Thunderbird open the default browser.
In the browser preferences, Chromium is selected as the default browser. It's also selected in "Default Applications" in System Settings.
In Thunderbird, I read "Chrome (Default)" which is wrong on all levels:
Chrome itself complains that it's not the default browser when I click a link inside Thunderbird.
In all other places, that I could find, Chromium is the default
Here is what I tried:
I used
update-alternatives --config x-www-browserto selectchromium-browseras well (see How do I change the default browser?).And even when I select a different browser from the list in the Thunderbird preferences, it still opens Chrome.
My current solution is to create a link from /usr/bin/google-chrome to chromium-browser.
How can I force Thunderbird to use the browser I want???
EDIT I also updated gnome-www-browser (update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser) after feedback from roadmr but that didn't help. At least sensible-browser opens Chromium, now, but Thunderbird is stubborn.
5 Answers
I found the last step missing. You have to go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Config Editor and change options
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.httpnetwork.protocol-handler.warn-external.https
to user-defined. Next time when you open a link it will ask you about which browser do you want, and then type /usr/bin/x-www-browser.
Works in Arch Linux, and may work in Ubuntu:
- (following the answer given here of @Aaron Digulla & @tonicebrian)
- search for
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.httpinabout:config - toggle both the
httpandhttpstotrue
- search for
- (following the suggestion of Raman Gupta on Kevin Locke's Homepage) when later prompted for your choice of browser, navigate to
/usr/bin/xdg-openwhich "will force Thunderbird to use the XDG MIME action (the desktop manager’s default)".
I encountered a somewhat similar problem on Kubuntu 12.04 after installing Chrome. While T-bird continued to open http-protocol links in Firefox, it suddenly began opening https links in Chrome.
Going to Edit-Preferences-Attachments I found the entry for the Content Type http set to firefox, but there was no entry for https.
Using the information I found here, I modified the about:config file for T-bird, with the Config Editor, (found in Edit-Preferences-Advanced-General) to have the network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https use the boolean value of True, thus enabling a user-set value. Upon returning to Edit-Preferences-Attachments I then found an entry for https content and was able to set it to firefox. I found in unnecessary, in my case, to modify network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http
0I also had the same issue. And the "network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http" change did not work for me.
After some Googling i found the setting in the thunderbird preferences > Attachments > incoming.
There i changed the http and the https to the browser of my desire. And it works now.
1A stab in the dark: did you use the update-alternatives procedure to update gnome-www-browser?
update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser
