benjaminq
05-14-2006, 11:29 AM
Hi, this one is for everyone, who wants to have the mailto: protocol handeled by KMail, whilst surfing with Firefox.
If you have installed the Firefox packages from Mozilla (not from the Debian repository) and you're not using GNOME as default DE, you might have been annoyed by the disaibility of getting KMail handling the "mailto:" links of homepages. Instead, Thunderbird or Evolution (if present) are opened. Those of you might have searched the web and found an extension named mozex. This works fine for everyone using Firefox 1.0.x. Those using FF 1.5.0.x read on:
1. Type about:config in the Adress line of Firefox to reach the FF configuration.
2. With the right mouse button you can define a:
new string
3. Name this new sting:
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
and set the value to:
kmailservice
4. Search the parameter:
network.protocol-handler.external.mailto
and control that it is set to:
true
After restarting FF you can use the "mailto:" protocol and the adress and subject will be set according to the values of the "mailto:" link in the website.
Of course, instead of kmailservice you can set any mail handler you like.
Credit goes to the Kubuntu Forums. Everyone is invited to send a feature request to mozilla to have them add this kind of setting in future releases.
All the best,
Benjamin
If you have installed the Firefox packages from Mozilla (not from the Debian repository) and you're not using GNOME as default DE, you might have been annoyed by the disaibility of getting KMail handling the "mailto:" links of homepages. Instead, Thunderbird or Evolution (if present) are opened. Those of you might have searched the web and found an extension named mozex. This works fine for everyone using Firefox 1.0.x. Those using FF 1.5.0.x read on:
1. Type about:config in the Adress line of Firefox to reach the FF configuration.
2. With the right mouse button you can define a:
new string
3. Name this new sting:
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
and set the value to:
kmailservice
4. Search the parameter:
network.protocol-handler.external.mailto
and control that it is set to:
true
After restarting FF you can use the "mailto:" protocol and the adress and subject will be set according to the values of the "mailto:" link in the website.
Of course, instead of kmailservice you can set any mail handler you like.
Credit goes to the Kubuntu Forums. Everyone is invited to send a feature request to mozilla to have them add this kind of setting in future releases.
All the best,
Benjamin