I've had the same problem, although I didn't build from source. First
off, see that you have the firefox executable in some folder in your
PATH. Also, check this page:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html
Hope this helps.
-Felix
Anthony Harper wrote:
> Ok, I'm using Suse 9.1, KDE. I don't recall if Thunderbird and Firefox
> came preinstalled, but I know that I uninstalled them if they were, and
> then built from source, and I'm currently running pretty recent version
> of both. Firefox is my default browser, if I click links in
> applications, open html files, etc. they open in Firefox. When I click
> links in Thunderbird, however, I get this: "ERROR: The browser
> specified in Preferences -> Preferred Applications does not exist." I
> tried for a while to figure out why it isn't seeing Firefox, but I can't
> get around it. In fact, I've come to be quite uncertain as to what they
> mean by Preferences -> Preferred Applications. Any clues?
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