{"id":974,"date":"2012-05-16T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=974"},"modified":"2012-05-16T15:26:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T15:26:24","slug":"how-to-stop-thunderbird-from-freezing-when-you-click-on-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2012\/05\/how-to-stop-thunderbird-from-freezing-when-you-click-on-links\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Stop Thunderbird From Freezing When You Click On Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Thunderbird-Firefox relationship getting you down? Does clicking links occasionally result in Thunderbird totally locking up for over a minute, before Firefox bursts into life with the requested page?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this started around Thunderbird v3, and here&#039;s how to fix it all the way up to v12:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tools > Options<\/li>\n<li>&#034;Advanced&#034; tab<\/li>\n<li>&#034;Config Editor&#8230;&#034;<\/li>\n<li>&#034;I&#039;ll be careful, I promise!&#034;<\/li>\n<li>Set preference <strong>network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http<\/strong> to <strong>true<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click on some link in an existing email<\/li>\n<li>You now get the choice of which browser to use. <em>Do not select Firefox<\/em>. Instead, choose &#034;Other&#034; and locate <code>firefox.exe<\/code> on your hard drive.<\/li>\n<li>&#034;OK&#034; everything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apparently Thunderbird works best when you pretend to it that its sibling Firefox is a third-party application that needs a simple shell invocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Thunderbird-Firefox relationship getting you down? Does clicking links occasionally result in Thunderbird totally locking up for over a minute, before Firefox bursts into life with the requested page? Apparently this started around Thunderbird v3, and here&#039;s how to fix it all the way up to v12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[40,66,12,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}