Changing Firefox Default Email link.

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Are you clicking on an email link in FireFox and it opens up another email Program. Say Thunderbird and you use Kmail or the reverse..
Here is how to set FireFox to your favorite email app.

Recalling some configuration tweaks to mind. One is the option to view and change the Firefox internel Config. You do this in the url address field box by typing
... about:config
and WoW! look at all the stuff you can tweak..If you know how.

I had forgotten, Until I clicked an email send link on a Web page and Evolution popped up as my email. Now that's OK except I use Kmail.
Luckily I keep notes of all Linux changes to my system and you should too.
I usually type up a text file and save it in MyDocuments under a descriptive name such as EmailToSetasDefault..
Here is how to change from Evolution to Kmail...

Setting Email Client Default in Firefox

Linux (KDE)

Opening a mail client, be that Thunderbird or some other email client, can take place either from within integrated KDE applications and "KDE-aware" applictions, or applications like Firefox that do not check KDE's preference settings. In the latter case like Firefox, one must set those preferences directly in the application.

For both cases, the first step is to determine where in your Linux filesystem the desired mail client resides. You will probably want to write this down since in some cases a Modal window or dialog box will be open, sometimes preventing actions to find the Full Path you need.

In my case, from a terminal window, I ran "type kmail" (without the quotes), though you might wish to enter "type thunderbird".
Answer was: /usr/bin/kmail
Note: "whereis kmail" (or whereis thunderbird) will return more answers than just the location of the executable "program".


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Setting Firefox's email client

These steps will allow opening your desired email client when operating in Firefox and using its menus, or when activating an email link on a Firefox page:

1. In Firefox's Location (URL) Bar, enter "about:config" and then press <enter> or click "Go".
2. With the cursor in the body of the resulting page, <right> the mouse.
3. From the pop-up menu, select "New".
4. From the next pop-up menu, select "String".
5. In the pop-up dialog box "Enter preference name", enter "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" (without quotes), and click "OK" (You might wish to cut-and-paste that phrase to ensure correct spelling).
6. In the pop-up dialog box "? network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", enter "/usr/bin/kmail" without quotes [or the actual filesystem location of your desired email client] and click "OK". This should be the Full Path of the program, i.e. "/user/bin/kmail", not just the path "/usr/bin".
In my case the line entered looked like this.........
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto /usr/bin/kmail
Without restarting Firefox, you can test by opening or switching to another tab. from the Firefox top menu select, "File -> Send Link". Your desired email client should open.

If that doesn't happen, redo your steps, ensuring the spelling of your entries is correct, and ensure the actual Full Path of your desired mail client is entered.


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Setting email client for KDE applications

These steps will allow opening your desired email client when operating in an integrated KDE or KDE-aware applicaion.

We need to open the KDE Control Center. Depeneding upon how your menu system is layed out this might be done through one of several selection paths, starting from the bottom Task Bar:

* "K (start) -> System -> Configuration Editor"
* "K (start) -> Configuration Editor"

With the KDE Configuration Editor open, now:

1. Select "Components -> KDE Components -> Component Chooser".
2. In the left list box, select "Mail Client".
3. Check the radio button "Use a different email client".
4. In the text box below that radio button, type the Full Path (Like /usr/bin/kmail), not just the path, to the executable program of your desired email client in the box - be that Thuderbird or something else.
5. At the bottom of the dialog box, click "Apply".
6. Close the KDE Configuration Editor.

Hope this helps someone..