setting default browser for use with email?
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setting default browser for use with email?
Hi,
Recently migrated from Thunderbird to Seamonkey. Is there a way to configure Seamonkey EMAIL to open links with Chrome (on a Mac?) I seem to recall that there's a config setting, but can't seem to find it. Thanks!
Miles Fidelman
Recently migrated from Thunderbird to Seamonkey. Is there a way to configure Seamonkey EMAIL to open links with Chrome (on a Mac?) I seem to recall that there's a config setting, but can't seem to find it. Thanks!
Miles Fidelman
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
You're probably thinking of the option to set SeaMonkey as the system's default browser. Other than that, the choice of any other browser as default is set on the operating system, not in SeaMonkey. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201607
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
SeaMonkey will handle anything it can. My default browser is Pale Moon, but if I click a link in email or news from SeaMonkey, it uses its own browser.
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
What Anonymosity said. SeaMonkey email does not pick up the default browser from Mac systems settings. It insists on using the Seamonkey browser when opening a link from within an email message. I expect there's a way around this. Does anybody actually know what it is?
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
The only way to do this is setting an external protocol handler but support is incomplete. Most code uses internal link load apis which whould need to be reworked. Not in this lifetime I am afraid.
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
I was afraid of that. When I googled the issue, most of what I found were 10-year old posts about config variables that might not show up in the about:config window, and that had nasty side effects when set.frg wrote:The only way to do this is setting an external protocol handler but support is incomplete. Most code uses internal link load apis which should need to be reworked. Not in this lifetime I am afraid.
Thanks, and...
Sigh...
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
mfidelman,mfidelman wrote:I was afraid of that. When I googled the issue, most of what I found were 10-year old posts about config variables that might not show up in the about:config window, and that had nasty side effects when set.frg wrote:The only way to do this is setting an external protocol handler but support is incomplete. Most code uses internal link load apis which should need to be reworked. Not in this lifetime I am afraid.
Thanks, and...
Sigh...
As frg said, no easy way. The kludge that I employ is to right click on an email message and get the option to copy link location and use that to paste into a different browser...
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
Not quite. Just use an 'Open With' extension, in this case more specifically, use one designed for T/Bird and you'll know it'll do Email links.frg wrote:The only way to do this is ...
For SM use, use the 6.8.6 version - https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/th ... /versions/
You can also configure this extension to open other programs as well. I also use it to open YouToob vids in SMPlayer, where I can control the brightness/contrast, etc.
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
Maybe I'm missing something. Open-With seems to give me options in the SeaMonkey browser window, but NOT in the email reader (i.e, it doesn't seem to give a right-click drop-down when clicking on an embedded link).Frank Lion wrote:Not quite. Just use an 'Open With' extension, in this case more specifically, use one designed for T/Bird and you'll know it'll do Email links.frg wrote:The only way to do this is ...
For SM use, use the 6.8.6 version - https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/th ... /versions/
You can also configure this extension to open other programs as well. I also use it to open YouToob vids in SMPlayer, where I can control the brightness/contrast, etc.
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
Yeah, you are.mfidelman wrote:Maybe I'm missing something.
Try the extension's Options.
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
Can you be a little more specific. All the options listed in the add-on manager pane, seem to apply to how one can get to different browsers from the browser window. None of them seem to be related to embedded links in email messages.
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
I have no clue if the settings mentioned in Changing the web browser invoked by Thunderbird would work with SeaMonkey, but they might be worth a look.
You used to modify network.protocol-handler.app.http and network.protocol-handler.app.https settings but starting a couple of years ago you needed to set network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http and network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https true and chose the desired browser from a popup window (you only need to do this once, its a sticky setting) instead.
You used to modify network.protocol-handler.app.http and network.protocol-handler.app.https settings but starting a couple of years ago you needed to set network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http and network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https true and chose the desired browser from a popup window (you only need to do this once, its a sticky setting) instead.
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Re: setting default browser for use with email?
The only thing is, those config items don't show up in the about:config list. Worse, the only reference to them in early seamonkey documentation & discussions suggested that they were only partially implemented, and tended to have unintended consequences (i.e., broke things). Looks like things have not improved. Oh well. Thanks.