CentOS - Dec 2009 - CentOS/RHEL's build of firefox hardwired to evolution -- how to change this

For some awful reason (can someone explain why?), the RHEL/CentOS build
of firefox is hardwired to use evolution as its mailto client.  With FF
2.<mumble> this was fixable with an about:config setting.  With
3.0.<mumble>, it seems not.  What is the proper way of fixing this?

*I* ended up doing a 'sudo rpm -e evolution' and then doing a 
'sudo ln -s <myfirefoxmailtohandler> /usr/bin/evolution'.  This is
a
truely ugly/bad solution, but it is the only one I know of. Please tell
be of a better solution.  (Hopefully not one that requires me to
download the firefox SRPM and hacking the .spec file -- re-building building
firefox from sources is non-trivial -- I'd *rather* drop random symlinks
into /usr/bin, bad as that is.)

*I'm* tempted to report this as a serious *bug* (I really consider it so).

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Hey

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
wrote:
> For some awful reason (can someone explain why?), the RHEL/CentOS build
> of firefox is hardwired to use evolution as its mailto client. ?With FF
> 2.<mumble> this was fixable with an about:config setting. ?With
> 3.0.<mumble>, it seems not. ?What is the proper way of fixing this?
>
> *I* ended up doing a 'sudo rpm -e evolution' and then doing a
> 'sudo ln -s <myfirefoxmailtohandler> /usr/bin/evolution'.
?This is a
> truely ugly/bad solution, but it is the only one I know of. Please tell
> be of a better solution. ?(Hopefully not one that requires me to
> download the firefox SRPM and hacking the .spec file -- re-building
building
> firefox from sources is non-trivial -- I'd *rather* drop random
symlinks
> into /usr/bin, bad as that is.)
>
> *I'm* tempted to report this as a serious *bug* (I really consider it
so).
It seams like something is not quite right. But what works is that in
the WM you set your default email program to what ever you want. Might
be something where Firefox is trying to be clever in gnome. Like with
Network Manager.

Cheers Didi
>
> --
> Robert Heller ? ? ? ? ? ? -- 978-544-6933
> Deepwoods Software ? ? ? ?-- Download the Model Railroad System
> http://www.deepsoft.com/ ?-- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows
> heller at deepsoft.com ? ? ? --
http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
>
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On Friday 04 December 2009 16:52, Robert Heller wrote:
> For some awful reason (can someone explain why?), the RHEL/CentOS
> build of firefox is hardwired to use evolution as its mailto client. 
I have no problem getting Firefox to use Kmail. Have you tried setting 
your preferred applications? Run
/usr/bin/gnome-default-applications-properties

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