Got another little thing working in my PC-BSD installation - getting Firefox and Thunderbird to work together. Now, when I click on a link in my email program Thunderbird, it opens in Firefox (instead of the drag'n'drop I had to do before). And when I click on a mailto link or do a Tools->New Message in Firefox, it opens up a new message in Thunderbird. And, unlike on Windows, when I do that the signature even shows up correctly. Wee haa!
How To Integrate Firefox and Thunderbird
The only thing I would change in the first posting is, as mentioned in the last message, use the more generic spot for the programs, rather than the funky PBI "/Programs" spot, which also includes the version number. For me, firefox (built from ports) was in /usr/X11R6/bin, and thunderbird (via a PBI) was in /usr/local/bin/. Also, in firefox, you can do the "about:config" trick and just paste a new key in there, rather than hand-editing the file.
Oh, and be sure to heed the advice at the bottom - close Thunderbird before editing the prefs.js file, as the last thing Thunderbird does before exiting is to overwrite it. So if you edit the file then exit Thunderbird, you lose your changes. Yup, I did it that way the first time...
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