Gene Heskett wrote on 03/25/16 16:40: > Greetings all; > > The reason is that it treats every clicked on link in an email, into a > download of the site, which kills lots of time, and the subsequent > display of the site by showing the file://tmp/somehashnumber it has > downloaded in the address titlebar. > > Is this my fault, or firefox? If my fault, how do I fix it? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > It may depend on which mail tool you use. In icedove/thunderbird I'd take a look at Edit -> Preferences -> Attachments -> Incoming and check what is configured there for http, https, ftp, file. In my case the Action is "Use x-www-browser". And /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser is a link to /usr/bin/firefox .
Regards, jvp.
