Cannot open firefox from link if it is already running

[Bob Snyder]

Hi Chris and Brian,

You are correct about editing prefs.js. I had originally tried it the 
way you suggest and was misled by the fact that thunderbird re-orders 
the entries in the file so my additions were moved to the middle of the 
file from the end leading me to believe that they were not there after 
running the app.

However, the problem persists. Thunderbird reads the page, writes it to 
a temp file, and passes the filename to the script.

Bob S.

Chris Kacoroski wrote:

>
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>
>> Bob Snyder wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> it won't overwrite it if you add it while thunderbird isn't running ^_~.
>>
>
> Bob,
>
> Brian is right.  Stop thunderbird and make the changes.  let me know 
> if it works.
>
> ski
>