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dbooster
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 Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject: linking firebird and thunderbird |
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I use both Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird - both excellent programs. But I notice that when I click on links in thunderbird it won't open the web pages in firebird. I'll have to manuelly copy and paste the links. Same thing for Gaim, tho that's not as big of a concern.
How can I set it so when I click on a link in one of my mails, it will automatically open firebird and go to that site?
Thanks!
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Leander256
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: linking firebird and thunderbird |
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You can read here that:
| Quote: | | Linux: Integration with the operating system is not currently implemented. Clicking on HTTP URLs in mail messages fails to launch your default Linux browser. We hope to address this in the next release. We recognize how important this is for our Linux users and apologize in advance. |
For gaim, you must look in the preferences, and the browser tab, put that line:
| Code: | | Mozilla-Firebird %s |
It should now launch a new session of Firebird everytime you click on a link (that's how my setup looks like at least, i'm not sure i already had the chance to try it). |
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ikshaar
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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It is a know problem that they tried to fix.. something to do with the MIME settings. I did not find any solution meanwhile, except the copy and paste. Let's hope for Thunderbird 0.4 
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mrhodes
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:57 am Post subject: |
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Damn,
I was just doing some research on this problem because it's something that has bothering me too with version 0.6 I'm surprised they haven't fixed this yet! Is there any way it can be tweaked for now manually ?
Thanks for any advice 
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ikshaar
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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Well in fact, using now Firefox 0.8 and Thunderbird 0.5, the problem was solved (for few months now) and my links in email open a new Firefox window correcylt...
Are you using latest version ?
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mengle
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| mrhodes wrote: | Damn,
I was just doing some research on this problem because it's something that has bothering me too with version 0.6 I'm surprised they haven't fixed this yet! Is there any way it can be tweaked for now manually ?
Thanks for any advice |
Yes, it can be done although you have to make changes to both programs. I don't have links but I found the results from just doing a search in these forums. Good luck. |
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LLoydBates
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using Firefox 0.9 and Thunderbird 0.6-r1
When clicking on a http link in thunderbird it gives me a nice allert.
if the link is pointing to a php it asks me what to do with it, as in "open with"
any idea?
errormsg is:
"Error launching browser window:TypeError:
Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1'] has no properties"
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firephoto
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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In your thunderbird profile directory create a file called user.js The file isn't there by default. Your profile is under ~/.thunderbird/default/********.slt/
If you're using the mozilla-launcher then you should just have to call either "firefox" or "firefox-bin" so your file should look similar to this.
| Code: | user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox-bin");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox-bin");
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I should say that I wasn't using mozilla-launcher but I am trying to use what is the default of a gentoo emerge now just to see the good and the bad. mozilla-launcher is a little slow but I guess it will have to be the "gentoo standard" till some new mozilla startup scripts get released in future builds and then they applications can be called directly instead of with an extra script.
edit*
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LLoydBates
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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yes! that worked, thank you.
however it does open every link in an extra firefox windows, is there no way to tell the firefox to open a new tab?
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firephoto
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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You have to edit mozilla-launcher.
nano -w /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher
Change where it says "{MOZILLA_NEWTYPE:-"window"}" to the following.
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# Set MOZILLA_NEWTYPE to "window" in your environment if you prefer
# new windows instead of new tabs
newtype=${MOZILLA_NEWTYPE:-"tab"}
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LLoydBates
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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and thanks again.
i did run a search on "firefox thunderbird" and found some posts.
one with a script that would check if firefox was already started, but it didn't work.
your tip works very well
If this isn't in the "Documents, Tips & Triks" (i haven't found it there) this should be corrected asap
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MikePikeFL
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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AWESOME!!! This has been a fairly major annoyance to me, but I never really thought to check out if I could change it! Now I just need to find similar options in Windows to make it behave the same way! The next time I'm in Windows that is... whenever that may be...  |
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kiss-o-matic
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eduardo451
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Great link! I'm having trouble getting firefox to open links from e-mails in new tabs, or new windows as described above. It simply overwites whatever is in the existing firefox window/tab. There is no "newtype=${MOZILLA_NEWTYPE:-"window"} line in my /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcer file. I have tried adding this line to my file without success. The only existing occurrence of "MOZILLA_NEWTYPE" in my file is as follows:
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# Handle multiple URLs by looping over the xremote call
for u in "${urls[@]}"; do
if [[ $u == mailto:* ]]; then
try_running "mailto(${u#mailto:})" || retval=$?
else
if [[ -n $MOZILLA_NEWTYPE ]]; then
try_running "openURL($u,new-$MOZILLA_NEWTYPE)" || retval=$?
elif [[ $zero == firefox* && -n $u ]]; then
# Don't override preferences set in the browser #82653
try_running "openURL($u)" || retval=$?
elif [[ -n $u ]]; then
try_running "openURL($u,new-window)" || retval=$?
else
try_running "xfeDoCommand(openBrowser)" || retval=$?
fi
fi
done
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Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. |
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