[SOLVED] send link in firefox not working

[skrap]

Ok I have been trying for quite some time to get this fixed. First of all I am running an AMD 64 processor with 2 gig ram and 320 gig HD. Gutsy 7.1 64 bit version. I have read the Thunderbird manual and Firefox manual and I have made the changes accordingly. What is happening is when I click an email link in FF nothing happens. With the settings I have TB should open with a write mail window to compose message to said email link. Nothing is happening.

This is what is set in FF about:congfig network.protocol-handler.app.mailto /usr/bin/home/skrap/.mozilla-thunderbird %s Which is the path to TB

Tb Settings = network.protocol-handler.app.mailto /usr/bin/home/skrap/.mozilla-thunderbird

If anyone could shed some light that would be great.

[philinux]

Check in system>prefs>preferred apps.

This is working fine for me.

[warp99]

Which versions of Firefox are you using?

[skrap]

Using Firefox 2. something and I have the preferences set correctly as I said I have read the documentation at Firefox and Thunderbird nothing seems to work for me.

[warp99]

Using Firefox 2. something and I have the preferences set correctly as I said I have read the documentation at Firefox and Thunderbird nothing seems to work for me.

You have the wrong path set for each binary. Your path leads to your hidden ~/.mozilla-thunderbird directory which have no binary files. If you've installed Firefox and Thunderbird from the Ubuntu repositories the path for each binary should be '/usr/bin/thunderbird' and '/usr/bin/firefox'.

The best thing is to follow these directions here at the Gentoo wiki:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Mozilla_Firefox/Settings#Open_mailto:_urls_in_Mozilla_Thunderbird

and here

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Mozilla_Thunderbird#Open_URLs_in_Mozilla_Firefox

I have personally used these guides on numerous installs without any problems.

[skrap]

This is what I get when I try to go to http://gentoo.wiki.com/
willing to try if I can get there.



ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://gentoo-wiki.com/

The following error was encountered:

* Unable to forward this request at this time.

This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that:

* The cache administrator does not allow this cache to make direct connections to origin servers, and
* All configured parent caches are currently unreachable.

Your cache administrator is root.
Generated Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:55:23 GMT by none (squid/3.0.STABLE1)

[warp99]

The site must be down because here is the Google cache:

http://209.85.141.104/search?hl=en&gl=us&q=gentoo-wiki.com%2FTIP_Firefox_Settings+gentoo+firefox+set tings&btnG=Search

and here:

http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:wEv3c2RosOMJ:gentoo-wiki.com/Thunderbird_attachments_window_too_large+gentoo+th underbird+settings&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

Remember that Google is your friend.

[skrap]

Thanks Warp looks like the site is still down. I'll try later and let you know.

[skrap]

Hey Warp 99. It worked! Thank you so much. I believe I have everything working now and I am very Happy with linux and all my new FREE SOFTWARE.