Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird
| June 9, 2004 @ 10:27 am | Filed under Software |
I have recently switched over to Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird for my web browser and mail client respectively. I have installed both applications on my Linux box as well as my Windows box. I have been quite pleased with the two applications as I have been using them. However, the one thing that did frustrate me about the two is that it is not easy to get them to work together. What I mean by that is it takes a little more work to get Thunderbird setup as the mail client for mailto: links in Firefox and for opening up links in Firefox when I click on the them from an email in Thunderbird.
Now before I get too far, I must make myself clear that the above problems are only found under Linux. Windows takes care of these issues with its default application setup. I tried a similar thing with the KDE default applications setup but had no luck. So, to help those newbies or anyone else that would like to know, I have been setting up a couple of web pages with small tutorials on how to make these applications work together. I also plan to add tutorials to the pages as I run into other not so simple tweaks with the two applications. You can view my Firefox tutorial page or my Thunderbird tutorial page at the sites listed below. I would encourage anyone who comes accross any errors or other good ideas to please e-mail me your comments/suggestions or leave a comment here on my blog under this entry.