[SOLVED] thunderbird url to open in firefox

11-18-2008	#1 (permalink)
imranka Linux Newbie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Hyderabad Posts: 141	[SOLVED] thunderbird url to open in firefox I Know this topic has already been discussed three times here. The solution there given was: 1. Go to: Cool Solutions: Forcing Thunderbird to Open Hyperlinks in Firefox 2. An url from gentoo-wiki which supposedly have the answer but unfornutely it seems the url no longer exists. Now, I read the novell solution. My problem is I don't have ~/.thunderbird directory and so normally I'm missing the prefs.js file which I'm supposed to edit. In this case what to do? N.B: I placed the openlink.sh in my /usr/lib/thunderbird/ directory. __________________ Imran Linux User #467555 \| Kubuntu 7.10 \| Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU 4500 @ 2.20GHz \| 1 GB RAM \| 160 GB SATA

11-20-2008

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imranka

Linux Newbie

Join Date: Dec 2007

Location: Hyderabad

Posts: 141

Hmmm. I found that they no longer calls the directory under /home/user/ .thunderbird but .mozilla-thunderbird. After finding the directory the solution given in Novell site applies, and it worked. But I have used a better version of openlink.sh, which I copied from mozillazine forum. Its like this:

Quote:

#!/bin/sh

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/opt/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"

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Imran
Linux User #467555 | Kubuntu 7.10 | Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU 4500 @ 2.20GHz | 1 GB RAM | 160 GB SATA

11-21-2008	#3 (permalink)
imranka Linux Newbie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Hyderabad Posts: 141	Just to post the best solution I've found I repoened this thread. :- Just Another Tech Blog: Thunderbird Configured to Open Links in Firefox You don't have tho write any script in this solution. __________________ Imran Linux User #467555 \| Kubuntu 7.10 \| Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU 4500 @ 2.20GHz \| 1 GB RAM \| 160 GB SATA

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