For some awful reason (can someone explain why?), the RHEL/CentOS build of firefox is hardwired to use evolution as its mailto client. With FF 2.<mumble> this was fixable with an about:config setting. With 3.0.<mumble>, it seems not. What is the proper way of fixing this?
*I* ended up doing a 'sudo rpm -e evolution' and then doing a 'sudo ln -s <myfirefoxmailtohandler> /usr/bin/evolution'. This is a truely ugly/bad solution, but it is the only one I know of. Please tell be of a better solution. (Hopefully not one that requires me to download the firefox SRPM and hacking the .spec file -- re-building building firefox from sources is non-trivial -- I'd *rather* drop random symlinks into /usr/bin, bad as that is.)
*I'm* tempted to report this as a serious *bug* (I really consider it so).
Hey
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
For some awful reason (can someone explain why?), the RHEL/CentOS build of firefox is hardwired to use evolution as its mailto client. With FF 2.<mumble> this was fixable with an about:config setting. With 3.0.<mumble>, it seems not. What is the proper way of fixing this?
*I* ended up doing a 'sudo rpm -e evolution' and then doing a 'sudo ln -s <myfirefoxmailtohandler> /usr/bin/evolution'. This is a truely ugly/bad solution, but it is the only one I know of. Please tell be of a better solution. (Hopefully not one that requires me to download the firefox SRPM and hacking the .spec file -- re-building building firefox from sources is non-trivial -- I'd *rather* drop random symlinks into /usr/bin, bad as that is.)
*I'm* tempted to report this as a serious *bug* (I really consider it so).
It seams like something is not quite right. But what works is that in the WM you set your default email program to what ever you want. Might be something where Firefox is trying to be clever in gnome. Like with Network Manager.
Cheers Didi
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At Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:17:59 +0000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hey
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
For some awful reason (can someone explain why?), the RHEL/CentOS build of firefox is hardwired to use evolution as its mailto client. With FF 2.<mumble> this was fixable with an about:config setting. With 3.0.<mumble>, it seems not. What is the proper way of fixing this?
*I* ended up doing a 'sudo rpm -e evolution' and then doing a 'sudo ln -s <myfirefoxmailtohandler> /usr/bin/evolution'. This is a truely ugly/bad solution, but it is the only one I know of. Please tell be of a better solution. (Hopefully not one that requires me to download the firefox SRPM and hacking the .spec file -- re-building building firefox from sources is non-trivial -- I'd *rather* drop random symlinks into /usr/bin, bad as that is.)
*I'm* tempted to report this as a serious *bug* (I really consider it so).
It seams like something is not quite right. But what works is that in the WM you set your default email program to what ever you want. Might
You mean *desktop* manager. *Window* managers would not have anything to do with something like that. *I* don't use a desktop manager (I don't use gnome or kde).
be something where Firefox is trying to be clever in gnome. Like with Network Manager.
Cheers Didi
-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
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On Friday 04 December 2009 16:52, Robert Heller wrote:
For some awful reason (can someone explain why?), the RHEL/CentOS build of firefox is hardwired to use evolution as its mailto client.
I have no problem getting Firefox to use Kmail. Have you tried setting your preferred applications? Run /usr/bin/gnome-default-applications-properties
At Fri, 4 Dec 2009 18:43:16 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Friday 04 December 2009 16:52, Robert Heller wrote:
For some awful reason (can someone explain why?), the RHEL/CentOS build of firefox is hardwired to use evolution as its mailto client.
I have no problem getting Firefox to use Kmail. Have you tried setting your preferred applications? Run /usr/bin/gnome-default-applications-properties
I don't use gnome.
On Friday 04 December 2009 20:43, Robert Heller wrote:
I don't use gnome.
This is from http://support.mozilla.com/fr/kb/Changing+the+e-mail+program+used+by+Firefox...
# At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Edit menu, and select Preferences. # Select the Applications panel. # Search for the Content-type: mailto and select it. # Click on the Actions column in the mailto row, to change the action.
In any event, evolution certainly isn't hardcoded.
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