Cannot open firefox from link if it is already running

[Bob Snyder]

My installation (in an older slack distro) of thunderbird 0.7.3 has no 
/usr/lib/mozilla-anything directory. No prefs.js under the thunderbird 
installation directory (/usr/local/thunderbird). I tried adding it to 
~/.thunderbird/default/xxx.slt/prefs.js, but thunderbird overwrites 
this. Tried user.js in the same directory, but no joy.

Bob S.


Chris Kacoroski wrote:

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