Zotero open web link using Thunderbird?

Hi all,

I am using Xubuntu 22.04 and I have installed Zotero recently. A weird thing I find is that when I choose an item and click "View Online", Thunderbird pops up and does nothing. It seems that Zotero somehow uses Thunderbird to open web link.

I try to solve this problem by remove the relation of some HTML-related MIME Type with Thunderbird, but it still does not work. So I remove Thunderbird and after this, when I click "View Online" again in Zotero, Zetero finally opens the link using Firefox. However, this is definitely not a good solution because I have to abandon Thunderbird.

Can anyone let me know how to solve this problem? Thanks.
  • Zotero uses system default apps to open web pages. If you double-click a html file on your computer and it opens with Thunderbird, then Zotero will open any web page with Thunderbird too. There's no way to choose a Zotero-specific default-app for web pages.
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