Thunderbird links dont work

[Jomama]

Yesterday I uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird and Firefox because I wanted them on a different partition. My W2K partition is getting too full so I am moving programs to a "Programs" partition.
Anyway I used a proggie called Mozbackup to backp the profiles of each.
Reinstalled the programs and restored the profiles. Seemed to be flawless until I tried clicking on a link from an e-mail. Like when you get a notification from this site that a reply has been make to a thread.
I can copy the link and paste it into a browser and it works. But I used to be able to click on the link and it would open the browser and open that site. Now it doesnt. I cant find a setting for this. Can anyone help with this?
TIA

[digitalfreedom64]

Open Firefox From Thunderbird As Default Browser

Ge here
https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...umpg=10&id=423
Then follow these instructions:
1. Right click the install link and select "save as".
2. Save it to a place you will remember and open up Thunderbird.
3. From the menu, select Tools --> Extensions
4. In the extensions window select "install" from the bottom left
5. This will ask you to point Thunderbird towards the path to the extension ***.xpi, select it and hit "open"
6. A new window will now pop up, (similar to the Firefox install window), it will make you wait two seconds, then select "install" from the bottom right.
7. Restart Thunderbird
2. Now that About:config is installed we have easy access to some of Thunderbird's hidden preferences. So, from the menu go to Tools --> About:config
3. This will take you to a new window, from here create the entries listed below, and add the paths as the values listed.
1. Right click --> new --> string
2. Paste in "network.protocol-handler.app.http" for preference name.
3. Paste in "path/to/Firefox"as the string value
4. add "network.protocol-handler.app.https" with a value of "path/to/Firefox" the same way.

[Jomama]

Thanks for the reply, Crash, Did it exactly and it didnt work. anything else.

[digitalfreedom64]

Originally Posted by Jomama Thanks for the reply, Crash, Did it exactly and it didnt work. anything else.

umm, well I can't think of anything else off the top of my head right now Never actually had this problem, did some searches to find that. I'm gonna suggest you go to http://forums.mozillazine.org/
and register in those forums.
I go there when I have trouble with Firefox and Thunderbird.

Either that or wait for someone else around here, I'm pretty sure there's someone here that can help ya.

[Jomama]

Hey Crash, thanks for the link.
Here is the answer "In FireFox --> Tools –-> Options... –-> General --> Default Browser --> use the "Check Now" button.
If FireFox is not your Default Browser (are you nuts) check the box to have FireFox check when it re-starts"

You know? It is always something so simple, you cant see the forest for the trees.
I just love these computer games!
Thanks again.

[digitalfreedom64]

I don't know why I didn't think of that. It was so obvious, geez. I've done got so used to looking for severe problems that I don't even notice the simple solutions sometimes.

Well anyway i'm glad you go tit fixed.