Caannot edit about:config in Thunderbird

[kubobbu]

I want to edit TBird's about:config to make Chrome my browser of choice when I click a link in an e-mail. But when I open the about:config editor and right click, there is no choice to Modify an entry; only New, Toggle, and Reset, none of which work.

Is this a TBird bug, or am I missing something here Version 2.0.0.23.
Bob

[MoeNeigh]

Re: Caannot edit about:config in Thunderbird

I'm having the same problem, only I'm trying to make firefox the default browser. In system settings, firefox is set as my default browser, but all links in thunderbird open in chrome despite that default setting. And you're right, there is no choice to edit settings in about:config in thunderbird 8.

It's curious that a few links that I have in my desktop folder, open immediately into my default browser (firefox), but thunderbird shows that it should open the http and https links in the default browser, but it does not.

[SOLVED] Update:

Found the answer here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1862815

although I had to substitute "kate" for "edit" in the first command:

1. sudo kate /usr/share/applications/defaults.list

2. Change

Code:

[Default Applications]
text/html=google-chrome.desktop
text/xml=google-chrome.desktop
application/xhtml_xml=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/ftp=google-chrome.desktop

to

3.
Code:

[Default Applications]
text/html=firefox.desktop
text/xml=firefox.desktop
application/xhtml_xml=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/ftp=firefox.desktop