[Users] can't get Firefox to open when I right click on small icon that shows text/html

Peter Richards peter777 at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jun 1 01:25:28 UTC 2023


On Wed, 31 May 2023 20:15:17 -0400
Gil Weber <gilweber at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I cannot get Firefox to open from an e-mail when I right click on the
> small icon on the far right side of the window (that says: text/html).
> I only get Chrome. 
> 
> When I right click and select: "open with" (no quotation marks) 
> I get this:  xdg-open %s
> 
> I have tried to select other "open with" options including:
> 
> firefox %U
> firefox '%s'
> firefox --new-window '%s'
> 
> but they won't stick. The drop-down defaults back to:
> 
> xdg-open %s  and I get Chrome.
> 

What do you have in Preferences  |  Message View  |  Web Browser  ?

Also what is the system default browser ?

Cheers,

Peter


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