Firefox 4 will not open thunderbird for mailto and send links

I use Windows 7 Enterprise.
Since the FF4 update will not open Thunderbird when a mailto link or send the link is clicked. My system has Thunderbird selected as the default e-mail client, and these links work in other browsers.

Following some help online suggestions on selection of Firefox's default mail client:

http://support.Mozilla.com/en-us/KB/changing%20The%20E-mail%20Program%20used%20by%20firefox?s=mailto & As = s

There is no option for 'mailto' or 'mail' in the content type window.

I suffered with this for weeks and finally worked around her.
Thunderbird has been defined as a client by default, but it does not work with some other customers as well, so I went to Default Programs / set program by default, Thunderbird selected, which was already defined as e-mail client by default, selected "Choose defaults for this program" and click Save. That fixed it for PDF Complete, but not for FF4.

In FF4, I changed the mailto option always Ask (it was Thunderbird (default)), then selected Thunderbird as client after picking send the link. It worked, so next time I checked the box in the dialog box always use Thunderbird and now it works. Grrr.

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