Re: [Evolution] Evolution and Firefox

[jongi <jongitech gmail com>]

On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 17:25 +0200, jongi wrote:
>     On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 08:58 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: 
> > On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 14:01 +0200, jongi wrote:
> > > > Installed gnome-control-center and set Evolution as the mail reader.
> > > > Yet still when I click on an email link, no mail composition box
> > > > appears. And when I click on a link in Evolution, it doesn't load in
> > > > Firefox.
> > > > 
> > > > Jongi
> > > 
> > > I've resolved the one issue: clicking on mailto link. This seems to be
> > > because I am using Debian where Iceweasel (basically firefox) is the
> > > default browser. The issue is with iceweasel. When I use firefox, an
> > > Evolution mail composition box appears (as set in about:config). 
> > > 
> > > However when I click on a link in Evolution, nothing happens in
> > > firefox 
> >
> > You may also need to do the reverse: set Iceweasel as your preferred web
> > browser in gnome-control-center.
> >
> > Matthew Barnes
> >
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>     
>     i'd already tried that
it seems a reboot (after doing a system update) did the trick. And when using KDE, gnome-control-center is not necessary. Both features are working with it having been removed. But it does seem that for some reason iceweasel doesn't want to play nice.

Thanks for the help guys.