Cannot open firefox from link if it is already running

[Chris Kacoroski]

Hi,

I tried the script and got the same issue.  I finally got it to work by 
adding the following to the prefs.js in the /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird 
directory:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp","/usr/bin/firefox");



cheers,

ski

Jens Luedicke wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> I have the following script in /usr/local/bin:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> MOZILLA=/usr/bin/firefox
> 
> if ($MOZILLA -a firefox -remote "ping()"); then
>         $MOZILLA -a firefox -remote "openURL("$1",new-tab)"
> else
>         $MOZILLA $1
> fi
> 
> This works for me. 
> 
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:11:57 -0700, Chris Kacoroski
> <kacoroski at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>>I have this problem also.  Did not happen with mandrake and
>>thunderbird/firefox and kde.  Does happen with debian, xfce,
>>thunderbird/firefox
>>
>>ski
>>
>>
>>
>>Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
>>
>>>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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>>>
>>
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>>  connected to the entire universe"            John Muir
>>
>>Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoroski at comcast.net, 435-681-0092
>>
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> 
> 
> 
> 

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Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoroski at comcast.net, 435-681-0092