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Firefox mailto thunderbird

I've just installed Firefox and Thunderbird on Mandrake 10.1 and would like to access Thunderbird via Tools/read mail and new message.
I know there's a very simple procedure to enable this. It involves first typing into the url box etc etc. I've done it on a previous occasion but have lost the instructions.
Can anyone help with the details please.
There is another way via commands lines which I shall deal with at a later date, for the moment the simple method will suffice.

In my Firefox's about:config I have this:

network.protocol-handler.app.mailto default string /usr/bin/thunderbird

Hope this helps.

Here's my notes

Code:

Configure firefox to use thunderbird on mailto links:



While in firefox, type:

about:config



type: mail in the filter window.



right clicked in the window with all the preference names and chose:

new string



In the box for: Enter the preference name

network.protocol-handler.app.mailto



In the box for value: Enter the path to thunderbird

/usr/bin/thunderbird



then toggle the value of these by double clicking

network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto true

network.protocol-handler.external.mailto true

network.protocol-handler.expose.mailto false

There must be something missing, I tried what you suggested and got nowhere. Still no reaction when I clicked Tools/read mail or new message.
Anyone else have any suggestions

Is /usr/bin/thunderbird the path or symlink to your thunderbird executable? If not substitute yours. Also you may need to restart Firefox for the config change to take effect.

Make Firefox open Mailto links in Thunderbird 2009

I had a little trouble recently getting firefox to handle mailto links on webpages with thunderbird.
I had already tried the older method of typing about:config in the firefox location bar and adding a new string entry to the config listings; network.protocol-handler.app.mailto and then filling in the resultant pop-up box with the location of my thunderbird executable; /usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird in my case.
That did not work for me this time - it may be that importing my .mozilla directory had something to do with that.
What finally worked for me was to open the
~/.mozilla/firefox/{random-letters-and-numbers}.default/mimeTypes.rdf
file - and search through it for alwaysAsk and changing False to True when I got to the urn:scheme:handler:mailto entry.
Then when I clicked on a mailto link in a webpage Firefox asked me how to handle it. I showed the pop-up box the location of the thunderbird executable, (in my case /usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird), and then after I saw that it worked I clicked on another mailto link, fed it /usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird again, and this time told the pop-up dialog box to remember how to handle it.
Now it works the way I want it to. When I click on a mailto link in Firefox it opens Thunderbird to a Compose page that already has the email address filled out.