how to launch mozillafirebird from mozillathunderbird

dredd · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Switzerland

hi

I am using mozilla thunderbird as mail client. I also set mozilla firebird as first default browser in kde setup. but when I click on a link in an email, nothing happens.... any ideas?

phil

nbrown · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:19 am Post subject:

It's a known Firebird Thunderbird bug and if you check the Mozilla pages it's one of the things they're trying to fix for the next release (although they've said that for a few releases now). So basically what I'm saying is there isn't a way to do this. If I'm wrong I'd love to hear it

-nbrown

dredd · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Switzerland

aww... allright... good to know... should have checked mozilla pages before then

thanks

Ricky · Guru Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 341

I'm using Firebird & Thunderbird from cvs, and this has been resolved, so the next releases should have it. I use gnome, and all you have to do is tell gnome to use Firebird as your preferred URL handler. The rest is magic

dredd · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Switzerland

what is cvs?

Ricky · Guru Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 341

CVS stands for "Concurrent Versions System", and it's used (mostly) to manage software projects. If someone is getting their sources from cvs, they are getting the lastest sources that the developers are working on. This means that you'll see newer features faster, but this also means that you'll sometimes have problems, since the code hasn't been bug tested like a release version.

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ogre2112 · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:18 am Post subject:

Fixed?!? Finally!

I'll wait for the new ebuild. Last time I tried my own compile, I failed horribly. Something to try again on a rainy day I guess.
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Gelfling · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:22 pm Post subject:

That's weird because I use Firebird and thunderbird under WinXP and it works for me, I'm able to click on a web link in a e-mail in thunderbird and firebird fires up and loads the web page.
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deathdruid · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject:

NewBlackDak · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 3:49 am Post subject:

pranyi · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:23 am Post subject:

Is this issue resolved?

I have the newest version of firebird and thunderbird and the only reason I use Mozilla is that I can't launch links from Thunderbirds in Firebird

I have set preferred browsers in both gnome and KDE to thunderbird, but Thunderbird alwas says:

pranyi · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject:

Nobody has any ideas?

Karny · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:27 am Post subject:

You need thunderbird 0.4 or later (cvs or nightly build will do) and either a cvs version of mozilla or firebird.

The release versions of mozilla and firebird do not have the patch to enable the links to work, so cvs is the only why to go currently.
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pranyi · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:29 am Post subject:

Karny · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:46 am Post subject:

I think there is a firebird-cvs ebuild in portage, if not... there's definitely one on breakmygentoo.net

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pranyi · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject:

Let me tell how I solved this issue.

I emerge mozilla-firebird-0.7-r1.

It's important to use the -r1 version, since it includes the remote client patch. However launching links still did not work with MozillaFirebird -remote, even if an instance of FireBird was running. So, I put this little script script got from MozillaZine into my /home/pranyi/bin: