Ubuntu 12.04 Google Chome - Email links don't open Thunderbird

Just upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 and installed Google Chrome and Thunderbird.

When I click on an email address link in google chrome it does nothing most of the time but some of the time it opens a new chrome tab and signs me into googlemail, but in Ubuntu 11.10 it would open Thunderbird to write the email.

How do I get Thunderbird to open to write the email?

Thanks

1 Answer

It sounds like your preferred email client is now 'Chrome' instead of 'Thunderbird'. To change that, perform the following steps:

• Open 'System-Settings'

• Click on 'Details'

• On the left side of the window, click on 'Default Applications'

• On the mail option between browser and calendar, select 'Thunderbird'

• Close the window

Hope that helps

--EDIT--

Another part to look at that Peter found was the following solution:

• Right click on the 'mailto' link
• Find 'Open Link With'
• Select 'Configure'

• Remove any Protocol Handler types that you don't want to use like 'mailto' or 'webcal'