Cannot open firefox from link if it is already running

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Mon Sep 6 22:26:28 CEST 2004


Bob Snyder wrote:
...
> 
> When I click on a link in an email, for example, firefox opens a new 
> tab, but the URL displayed is like this: file:///tmp/0qgcwitz-1.html. 
> Firefox has copied the whole page to my /tmp, and opened it from there. 
> Obviously the relative links don't work, but the absolute links do.
> 
> Does anyone else observe this behavior?
> 
> Sorry, this has gotten kind of off-topic.
> 

Thunderbird seems to be a bit broken. I have this too now, didnt used 
to. Anyway, instead of feeding it the link, TB downloads the file to 
/tmp and opens that with the browser.

	Jasper



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