Thunar and Firefox

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri Nov 7 23:12:23 CET 2008


Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>> Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>     Anyone figure out how to get Firefox to use Thunar
>>> as its file manager?
>> Google found this (query "firefox open thunar"):
>> http://rubylution.ping.de/articles/2007/09/11/open-containing-folder-in-firefox-under-linux
>>
>> Please use Google.  Google is your friend.
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
>      That link only works under FF2.x.  I just
> verified that they are still there since I
> upgraded from FF2.x.  I also verified the
> problem over on the Firefox group.  Sorry, I
> should have included that information with
> the original post.  My bad.  :-[

Ah, that's a shame.  So I tried "firefox 3 file protocol handler" and 
came up with this:
http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2008/04/firefox-3-web-protocol-handlers/

Not sure if that'll work for file manager launching, but may be worth 
looking into.

	-b



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