User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20070118 Red Hat/1.5.0.9-10.el5 Firefox/1.5.0.9 pango-text Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.9 (20061206) You might want to include a file "thunderbird.desktop" like this: -------------------------------------------------- [Desktop Entry] Name=Thunderbird Email Comment=Lightweight Mozilla-based mail client Exec=thunderbird %f Icon=thunderbird.png Terminal=false Type=Application StartupNotify=false Categories=Application;Network; MimeType=application/mbox;message/rfc822; -------------------------------------------------- (install it to "/usr/share/applications/") details see http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ This enables better desktop integration. Reproducible: Always

or into "${XDG_DATA_HOME}/applications/", in the user's home.

Builds from mozilla.org do not include any linux installer...

thunderbird could copy it into "${XDG_DATA_HOME}/applications/" on first launch... (not sure if that would help, though)

This file is currently from Ubuntu http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_2.0.0.8+2nobinonly-0ubuntu3.diff.gz but will be in Fedora as well (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384711)

Of course, the URL should go to http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/thunderbird/thunderbird_2.0.0.8~pre071022+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10.diff.gz

#296568 is about Firefox. This one is about Thunderbird.