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Hierdie gesprek is in die argief. Vra asseblief 'n nuwe vraag as jy hulp nodig het.

Firefox 15.0.1 on Slackware 14.0 will not use Thunderbird 15.0.1 as default email.

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Edit->Preferences->mailto is set to "Use thunderbird (default) If I set Edit->Preferences->mailto to "Use Yahoo! Mail, that works.

In KDE I set the "Use a different email client: to /usr/bin/thunderbird. If I enter /usr/bin/thunderbird in a console, thunderbird starts.

Edit->Preferences->mailto is set to "Use thunderbird (default) If I set Edit->Preferences->mailto to "Use Yahoo! Mail, that works. In KDE I set the "Use a different email client: to /usr/bin/thunderbird. If I enter /usr/bin/thunderbird in a console, thunderbird starts.

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No, that didn't help. I had already set Firefox, Thunderbird and KDE to use Thunderbird as the instructions in the link. Thanks though, for your reply. Wayne

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Is there a way to debug this stuff and find out just where it's not working? WEVL

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No idea. Setting Thunderbird as the default mail client and setting it up in Firefox as the mailto application worked for me, but I use Mac OS, not Linux.