{"id":26,"date":"2007-08-18T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T08:15:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:50:24","slug":"firefox_and_thunderbird_tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/2007\/08\/18\/firefox_and_thunderbird_tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox and Thunderbird tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many people, I often use Mozilla’s<\/a> browser and email client, but find that without some customisation, they are not to my liking.<\/p>\n

The first task is to get them both to fit into my desktop environment. Since I use the Tango icons, using the Tango Firefox theme<\/a> and Thunderbird theme<\/a> is only natural. Note that Thunderbird will crash if you have the mail notification feature enabled, so best disable that.<\/p>\n

Then some settings must be added in about:config, so that both programs can talk to each other. Open about:config in Firefox, right click and add network.protocol-handler.app.mailto<\/em>. Set it to xdg-email<\/em> and it will now open up whichever email program you set as default \ud83d\ude00 (make sure that you have emerged xdg-utils otherwise xdg-* won’t exist)<\/p>\n

A similar method exists for Thunderbird. Edit => Preferences => Advanced => Config Editor… will get you to the about:config equivalent. Then add network.protocol-handler.app.http<\/em> and network.protocol-handler.app.https<\/em> and set both to xdg-open<\/em>. Now when you click on links in Thunderbird, they should open up in your browser.<\/p>\n

Then you get onto extensions. Now, I don’t use an excessive number, just a few that I have found useful.<\/p>\n

In Firefox the ones I recommend are:<\/p>\n