Make Thunderbird 3 in OpenSuse 11.3/KDE open Chrome

[Update for Thunderbird 8 in OpenSUSE 12.1/KDE below]
Thunderbird uses gconf even when running in KDE.

For some reason when you tell Chrome to be your default Browser it misses out configuring gconf.

Fire up a shell and type:

gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command

You will see something like:

/usr/bin/firefox "%s"

To change this over to chrome type:

gconftool-2 --type string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command "google-chrome %s"

Restart Thunderbird. And now http(s) links should open in Chrome.

[Update]

TB > 4.x uses the xdg settings to determine the right thing to do.
Unfortunately on my Opensuse 12.1/KDE Box these seem not to be set by google-chrome.

I found the Solution here.

Aparently Google Chrome only sets the default browser for the "text/htm" Mime Type. Links seem to be clasefied "x-scheme-handler/http".

To fix this add the following line line to ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop