Firefox/Thunderbird integration in FC3
david walcroft
david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au
Sat Nov 20 01:12:41 UTC 2004
Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm testing out the standard firefox and thunderbird packages in
> Fedora Core 3. Clicking on mailto: links in firefox and http: url's
> in thunderbird does nothing on my system. Reading past post I was led
> to believe that this was configured automatically. I'm running KDE.
>
> Is there any other package that needs to be installed for this to work
> or other configuration to be done?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Orion
>
Orion,
Mozilla hasn't fixed the links to Thunderbird/Firefox yet
(AFAIK) I use these scripts and pref.js to do it,
Place this 'openlink.sh' in /usr/lib/thunderbird*
#!/bin/sh
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/firefox*"
url="$1"
if [ "x$url" = "x" ]; then
url="about:blank"
fi
if $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client openURL\("$url,new-tab"\); then
exit 0
fi
exec $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/firefox "$url"
#
# Add to ~thunderbird pref.js
#
# user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp",
"/usr/lib/thunderbird-0.8.0/openlink.sh");
# Change .app.ftp to http,https on new lines for access
Place this as shown
#!/bin/sh
#
# Mailto.sh see notes below
#
url="$1"
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/thunderbird*
if [ $(pidof thunderbird-bin | wc -w) -gt 0 ]; then
# thunderbird is running
url=`echo "$url" | sed -e's/^mailto://'`
$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -remote "mailto($url)"
else
# thunderbird is not running
$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -P default -compose $url
fi
# Place mailto.sh in /usr/lib/firefox*/
#
# Place in user.js/pref.js in .mozilla/firefox
#
# user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto",
"/usr/lib/firefox/mailto.sh");
note * change as required
david
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