firefox and thunderbird in gnome2.8

Thomas Vogt tv at solnet.ch
Tue Oct 5 05:23:45 PDT 2004


Radek Kozlowski wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:27:23PM +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all
>>
>>Hmm I use thunderbird 0.8 and firefox 1.0pre (both from marcuscom cvs) 
>>with gnome 2.8 under fbsd 5.2.1-p11 (i386). It works smoothly. Thank for 
>>you work!
>>
>>I've a small problem. If I click on a link in thunderbird mail client it 
>>asks me how to open it. So I use /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox.rb. The Problem 
>>is, that the link will always be downloaded first and then it open it in 
>>a tab browser with path file:///tmp/foo.htm.
>>Is it not possible to configure thunderbird that it opens the url with 
>>firefox directly without downloading the link first to a /tmp directory?
>>Perhaps with gconf-editor? I doubt that this is a gnome only problem. 
>>But perhaps someone has a solution.
>>    
>>
>
>Try adding these lines to your ~/.thunderbird/[...]/prefs.js:
>
>	user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","firefox");
>	user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","firefox");
>
>This works for me.
>
>-Radek
>  
>
Thanx that works. Cool.

regards
Thomas


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