Xfce preferred applications

Hi All,
When I'm in the Thunderbird email program, clicking on a link does not open firefox. These programs are both selected in the preferred applications section of xfce settings. Does anyone here know of any tricks that I might be missing?
Thanks,
Arthur

Yes, Thunderbird ignores any preferred apps you might have set in Xfce (or Gnome and KDE, for that matter). You need to go to Edit --> Preferences --> Advanced --> Config Editor (it's the same thing as Firefox's "about:config"), and add a string key "network.protocol-handler.app.http". Setting it to "xdg-open" should make it behave and use your preferred app, but if that doesn't work you can just set it to "/usr/bin/firefox" or whatever.
You can set a similar key, "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" in Firefox to "xdg-email" to use your preferred app for mailto: URLs.

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