[Users] Reading html mail.

[Malachi Constant]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:32:52 +0100
Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:23:11 +0000, Malachi Constant wrote:
> 
> > > Also, which program displays the error message?
> >
> > No idea.  I get the error message when I right click on the little
> > rectangle on the right hand edge of the claws-mail window, and then
> > left click on "Open". A new Firefox window is opened, with the error
> > message displayed.
> 
> So, it is Firefox that displays the error, isn't it?
> And the URL line displays the full path to that mimetmp file?
> 
> If instead of "Open" you choose "Open with...", what do you get then?
> Just in case, the default to open the message part in Firefox is:
> firefox '%s' For comparison, you could and should also try a program
> different than Firefox.

Ah-ha.  In "Open with" I selected "google-chrome %s" and bingo! It
worked.  (I had to install google chrome first, and that was painfully
complicated, but I found complete and reasonably clear instructions and
followed them, and was in the end successful.)

One other thing, however.  I would like opening with google-chrome to
be the default.  Even when I use "Open with", the option displayed is
"xdg-open %s" and I have to click for the drop-down menu to get to
"google-chrome %s".

I (vaguely) recall seeing, in some circumstance, an option being offered
"Make this the default?" or something like that. But no such option is
offered here.

Is there any way to get "google-chrome %s" to be the default?

Please note that I want to keep Firefox as my "overall" default
browser.  I just want to make Google Chrome the default for opening
html emails.

Thanks.

sincerely,

Unk