Lisa wrote:
I wrote a tutorial on this here: http://g33kgrrl.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/getting-thunderbird-to-open-links-in-firefox-not-konqueror/Hopefully this will be the last time you have to copy/paste a URL. ;-)
Fantasti had tried something that another site had which put a line like user-preference "(network...xyz)"which diod not work, I guess it does no harm. (I Hope) as I can't see how to delete it!
your advice did work, for which I am happy. Thanks!