Subj : Firefox/Thunderbird URL handling annoyance
To   : comp.os.linux
From : R. P. Dillon
Date : Fri Jul 16 2004 12:25 pm

I've been using Firefox and Thunderbird for browsing and email/news, and 
  they have been working beautifully for me (I wish Thunderbird 
supported Maildir, though).

Anyway, I can't seem to fix this one annoyance:  I managed to get 
thunderbird to load urls in Firefox instead of Konqueror (yes, I use 
KDE), but it downloads the file to /tmp, the  open the /tmp/url.html in 
Firefox, instead of sending the url directly to Firefox to open live, on 
the net.  As a result, the links are all dead, and I can't for the life 
of me figure out what chrome setting or prefs.js setting to use to fix this.

It did it the same under Red Hat and Fedora Core 2 (laptop), then Debian 
(old desktop), and now Gentoo (new desktop).

Anyone have any experience with this kind of thing?

Thanks-

.