Thunderbird 1.5 links don't work

[Dean DeBruin]

I downloaded and installed Thunderbird 1.5 and Firefox 1.5 using
automatix in Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy). When I click on a link in a
newsgroup message nothing happens. How can I fix this?

[Johannes Wienke]

Am 12.03.2006 19:38 schrieb Dean DeBruin:

> I downloaded and installed Thunderbird 1.5 and Firefox 1.5 using
> automatix in Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy). When I click on a link in a
> newsgroup message nothing happens. How can I fix this?

Which sort of links do you mean? http, ftp, newsgroup-postings?

[Dean DeBruin]

Johannes Wienke wrote:

> Am 12.03.2006 19:38 schrieb Dean DeBruin:

>> I downloaded and installed Thunderbird 1.5 and Firefox 1.5 using
>> automatix in Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy). When I click on a link in a
>> newsgroup message nothing happens. How can I fix this?

>
> Which sort of links do you mean? http, ftp, newsgroup-postings?

I mean http links within a message.

[Johannes Wienke]

Am 12.03.2006 21:33 schrieb Dean DeBruin:

> Johannes Wienke wrote:

>> Am 12.03.2006 19:38 schrieb Dean DeBruin:

>>> I downloaded and installed Thunderbird 1.5 and Firefox 1.5 using
>>> automatix in Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy). When I click on a link in a
>>> newsgroup message nothing happens. How can I fix this?

>> Which sort of links do you mean? http, ftp, newsgroup-postings?

>
> I mean http links within a message.

There are several possibilities. I would use the configuration for
Thunderbird. In The preferences you can go to the last point (don't know
the english name) and there use the button edit configuration. You have
to insert the following entries:

network.protocol-handler.app.http
network.protocol-handler.app.https

For the values you user the executable of your browser.

[Dean DeBruin]

Johannes Wienke wrote:

> Am 12.03.2006 21:33 schrieb Dean DeBruin:

>> Johannes Wienke wrote:

>>> Am 12.03.2006 19:38 schrieb Dean DeBruin:
>>>> I downloaded and installed Thunderbird 1.5 and Firefox 1.5 using
>>>> automatix in Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy). When I click on a link in a
>>>> newsgroup message nothing happens. How can I fix this?
>>> Which sort of links do you mean? http, ftp, newsgroup-postings?

>> I mean http links within a message.

>
> There are several possibilities. I would use the configuration for
> Thunderbird. In The preferences you can go to the last point (don't know
> the english name) and there use the button edit configuration. You have
> to insert the following entries:
>
> network.protocol-handler.app.http
> network.protocol-handler.app.https
>
> For the values you user the executable of your browser.

I changed:
network.protocol-handler.app.http default string x-www-browser
network.protocol-handler.app.https default string x-www-browser
to:
network.protocol-handler.app.http default string firefox
network.protocol-handler.app.https default string firefox
and it now works. Thanks!