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when I go to send a link ifirefox opens outlook express not thunderbird how do I fix this Thanks

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I tried to send a page link from ebay I right click select send link firefox opens outlook express which i never use instead of opening thunderbird which I use for e-mail. I want to know how to get the send link feature in firefox to go to thunderbird instead of outlook express. I looked up tools options all areas but no luck finding way to change send link destination program.Help please thanks

I tried to send a page link from ebay I right click select send link firefox opens outlook express which i never use instead of opening thunderbird which I use for e-mail. I want to know how to get the send link feature in firefox to go to thunderbird instead of outlook express. I looked up tools options all areas but no luck finding way to change send link destination program.Help please thanks

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Go to Orange FF button/tools, > Options >Applications, search for "mailto:" then change the action to "Use thunderbird", then click OK. If it is not in the list, select use other, then browse to "thunderbird.exe" which is usually in "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird".

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instructions are easy for me to -follow but one prob where do I find Orange FF button/tools, after that I should be ok, did a search for it came up with literally hundreds of finds none of which made sense to me.

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make thunderbird your default mail client, by going in the settings of thunderbird and in options there will be a option of making default

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See screenshots attached- either one of them. Hope this helps.

(this is to gandalfdarkrider's second post.)

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Hi sanket779292 , that was fist thing I checked and it was but thanks anyway.

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Thanks Tomatoweb,screen shots were great help found what you described was already set to Thunderbird. so didn't fix prob.thanks for extra help

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See --> https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Changing%20the%20e-mail%20program%20used%20by%20Firefox

Set both the "Firefox mail client" and your "OS default mail program"


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