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So running Thunderbird 3.0 under Fedora 11, I couldn’t get it to launch chrome correctly. It would just start a new chrome window (not a new tab) with the default start page (blank page for me). This was the behavior despite:

setting chrome as my default browser

going into Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Config Editor (or alternately ~/.thunderbird/ /prefs.js) and overriding the protocol-handler entries for http and https. I tried both specifying /usr/bin/google-chrome and specify xdg-open. No dice.

Grrr. The missing magic:
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command -t string "/usr/bin/google-chrome %s"