Re: Cannot open firefox from link if it is already running

Hi,

I tried the script and got the same issue.  I finally got it to work by 
adding the following to the prefs.js in the /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird 
directory:

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



cheers,

ski

Jens Luedicke wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I have the following script in /usr/local/bin:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> MOZILLA=/usr/bin/firefox
>
> if ($MOZILLA -a firefox -remote "ping()"); then
>         $MOZILLA -a firefox -remote "openURL("$1",new-tab)"
> else
>         $MOZILLA $1
> fi
>
> This works for me. 
>
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:11:57 -0700, Chris Kacoroski
> <kacoroski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have this problem also.  Did not happen with mandrake and
> > thunderbird/firefox and kde.  Does happen with debian, xfce,
> > thunderbird/firefox
> >
> > ski
> >
> >
> >
> > Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> >
> > > Bob Snyder wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > >
> > > > When I click on a link in an email, for example, firefox opens a new
> > > > tab, but the URL displayed is like this: file:///tmp/0qgcwitz-1.html.
> > > > Firefox has copied the whole page to my /tmp, and opened it from
> > > > there. Obviously the relative links don't work, but the absolute links
> > > > do.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone else observe this behavior?
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, this has gotten kind of off-topic.
> > >
> > > Thunderbird seems to be a bit broken. I have this too now, didnt used
> > > to. Anyway, instead of feeding it the link, TB downloads the file to
> > > /tmp and opens that with the browser.
> > >
> > >    Jasper
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> > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoroski@xxxxxxxxxxx, 435-681-0092
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