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Firefox 3.6 default mail application

With Firefox 3.5 I have been using this in /usr/lib/firefox/defaults/preferences/myprefs.js to set a default mail client for all users.

Code:

pref('network.protocol-handler.app.mailto','some_application');

pref('network.protocol-handler.expose.mailto',true);

With Firefox 3.6 these settings are ignored.

Anyone know how to make this work in Firefox 3.6? I stress that I need a solution that allows me to set the default for all users. Per-user solutions such as going in to Preferences and selecting a mail client are of no use. Sadly that's the only solution I've been able to find. I need a setting that sets a default for all users and this needs to work even if they already have Firefox profiles. (So modifying the contents of /usr/lib/firefox/defaults/profile is not a solution.)

I have some_application set as the default mail application for GNOME.

I think you need change your system's default mail client.

Change it to what? I already said I had what I want it to be set as the default GNOME mail client.

Anyway, I just found a solution which was installing a package called mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome. That makes Firefox use the default GNOME mail client.