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Enable or command (SeaMonkey 2.49.2) to launch all email links in (FireFox 58.0.2)

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Intruderscooter
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I'm running SeaMonkey as my email client but prefer FireFox for browsing. A couple of months ago I somehow (by googling) managed to tell SeaMonkey to open all links within SeaMonkey email through the FireFox browser. Worked beautifully for a month. Then after I recently rebooted my computer I mysteriously lost that option. Now, I can't find again where I had gone to set that "command".

In researching, I see plenty about setting external http and https and ftp handlers to "true" in about:config, which I have done. Other folks suggest going to "options" / preferences / attachments and changing the default browser to FireFox. There is no "options" menu in SeaMonkey, only a preferences. No "attachment" setting either. Otherwise, yes, I have gone into "options" in FireFox and designated it as the default browser.

Can someone please assist me with this as opposed to offering a solution that doesn't exist (such as "options" in SeaMonkey)?

Thanks in advance folks!

I'm running SeaMonkey as my email client but prefer FireFox for browsing. A couple of months ago I somehow (by googling) managed to tell SeaMonkey to open all links within SeaMonkey email through the FireFox browser. Worked beautifully for a month. Then after I recently rebooted my computer I mysteriously lost that option. Now, I can't find again where I had gone to set that "command". In researching, I see plenty about setting external http and https and ftp handlers to "true" in about:config, which I have done. Other folks suggest going to "options" / preferences / attachments and changing the default browser to FireFox. There is no "options" menu in SeaMonkey, only a preferences. No "attachment" setting either. Otherwise, yes, I have gone into "options" in FireFox and designated it as the default browser. Can someone please assist me with this as opposed to offering a solution that doesn't exist (such as "options" in SeaMonkey)? Thanks in advance folks!

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Matt
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Why are you using seamonkey at all if you are not using it as a browser?

I would have thought Thunderbird would be similar enough that using SeaMonkey would simply be a mess for no reason.

You are posting in a Thunderbird forum asking about SeaMonkey. I really do not think you will get much of a response here. MozillaZine has a SeaMonkey forum, but I have never used it. 

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=40
Intruderscooter
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Hi Matt -

I'm rerouting that question through the SeaMonkey forum. Thank you for that heads up.

Additionally, since your comment, I installed the latest Thunderbird. When I click on links within my email...it does nothing, even after setting my preference under Options / Preferences / Attachments to FireFox.

Any ideas?

Matt
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usually issues with links trace back to the default system browser not being set correctly.

There should be nothing in Edit >preferences > attachments> incoming for links. If there is it is itself a point of failure.

I am assuming that in seamonkey you will find Thunderbird options under edit > preferences. See here for a handy menu mapping grid http://kb.mozillazine.org/Menu_differences_in_Windows,_Linux,_and_Mac