Offmessage

OK - next niggle with my new Hardy Heron installation. Clicking links in emails in Thunderbird doesn’t do anything. Nothing. For the last week I’ve been pasting links from emails into Firefox. This is no fun. Some googling around didn’t really help (the suggestions here, for example, didn’t work for me). What did work for me was the following (ymmv, obviously)…

In Thunderbird go to Edit -> Preferences. Open the Advanced tab and then the General tab. Then click the Config editor button. Find the line called network.protocol-handler.expose-all and change it to True. Voilà (at least for me).

Update: OK.  I lied.  This didn’t work for me at all.  In fact what it did for me was cause Firefox to open with a downloaded version of the file.  I’m stumped.  And annoyed.

Edgy Eft took me nearly a fortnight of painful evenings to get it installed on my x60s. Feisty Fawn took a couple of evenings.  Hardy Heron took all of 2 hours to get completely installed and configured.  That, ladies and gentleman, is progress… (well, that and a removable drive…)

Only problem so far? In Dolphin (the replacement for Konqueror) when you mouse over any XML or HTML file you get a nasty popup telling you that Amarok is incorrectly configured:

The desktop entry file
/usr/share/apps/d3lphin/servicemenus/amarok_addaspodcast.desktop
has an invalid menu entry
addAsPodcast

As always Google is your friend - a fix for the annoying Amarok addAsPodcast error popup in Dolphin in Hardy Heron.