I noticed after I upgraded my desktop from Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” to “Gutsy Gibbon” that Firefox’s “Send As Link” had stopped working, but it took me until now to take a look at why. I love “Send As Link” - unlike Internet Explorer it fills in the email “Subject” line correctly, and sends the URL as a plain-text user-visible link, unlike IE’s freaky .url attachment.
It wasn’t until I noticed that MailTo: links were broken that I twigged what was going on. Somehow in the upgrade Ubuntu had lost track of my “Preferred Email Application”. To set it correctly:
- Go to the “System” menu, select “Preferences” and then “Preferred Applications”.
- Change the mail reader option to “Thunderbird” in the drop-down list.
Restart Firefox and you should be good-to-go.
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