[lug] thunderbird doesn't honor default KDE browser

[Paul E Condon]

On 20111216_091600, Davide Del Vento wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 13:33, Simos <blug at chinesetearoom.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 December 2011 1:19 Davide Del Vento wrote:
> >> >> I have KDE (I finally gave up on GNOME, but that's a different story)
> >> >> Platform Version 4.7.2 (4.7.2) and my default browser is firefox
> >> >> (firefox says so, and SystemSettings->DefaultApplications->WebBrowser
> >> >> confirms). When I click on a link in the console, it opens firefox.
> >> >> When I click on a link in Thunderbird (v8.0) it opens Chrome.
> >> >> Thunderbird doesn't have any browser "choice" and it should honor
> >> >> system default, do you have any clue of what could be wrong here?
> >> > Assuming you are running some sort of Debian variant (e.g. Ubuntu), then
> >> > run the following commands in a terminal:
> >> >
> >> > update-alternatives --list x-www-browser
> >> > update-alternatives --list gnome-www-browser
> >> >
> >> > I'm betting one of them will come back with Chrome on top of the list.
> >>
> >> Thanks, but nope:
> >>
> >> ddvento at cisl-augusta:~$ update-alternatives --list x-www-browser
> >> /usr/bin/firefox
> >> /usr/bin/google-chrome
> >> /usr/bin/rekonq
> >> ddvento at cisl-augusta:~$ update-alternatives --list gnome-www-browser
> >> /usr/bin/firefox
> >> /usr/bin/google-chrome
> >
> > Well, shoot...
> >
> > The only other thing I can think of to check:
> >
> > ls -al /etc/alternatives | grep -i chrome
> 
> Kind of bingo, but really not :-(
> ...

Does Thunderbird perhaps look at /etc/mailcap ??? I know mutt does, but mutt
is very special.

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Paul E Condon           
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