Cannot open firefox from link if it is already running

[Bob Snyder]

Okay, I've got it fixed. Chris, the three lines that you supplied need 
the name of the script that in turn passes the URL to firefox, not 
firefox directly. In my case I called the script firefox_link. Here's 
the script:

#!/bin/sh
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/local/firefox/firefox-installer"

url="$1"
if [ "x$url" = "x" ]; then
url="about:blank"
fi

if $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox 
openURL\("$url",new-tab\); then
exit 0
fi
exec $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/firefox "$url"


And here's the lines I added prefs.js:

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

Thanks for the help, I hope this isn't so far off topic that others 
won't find it useful.

Bob S.


Bob Snyder wrote:

> 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
>>
>
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