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

Okay, I've got it fixed. Chris, the three lines that you supplied need 
the name of the script that in turn passes the URL to firefox, not 
firefox directly. In my case I called the script firefox_link. Here's 
the script:

#!/bin/sh
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/local/firefox/firefox-installer"

url="$1"
if [ "x$url" = "x" ]; then
url="about:blank"
fi

if $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox 
openURL\("$url",new-tab\); then
exit 0
fi
exec $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/firefox "$url"


And here's the lines I added prefs.js:

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

Thanks for the help, I hope this isn't so far off topic that others 
won't find it useful.

Bob S.


Bob Snyder wrote:

> Hi Chris and Brian,
>
> You are correct about editing prefs.js. I had originally tried it the 
> way you suggest and was misled by the fact that thunderbird re-orders 
> the entries in the file so my additions were moved to the middle of 
> the file from the end leading me to believe that they were not there 
> after running the app.
>
> However, the problem persists. Thunderbird reads the page, writes it 
> to a temp file, and passes the filename to the script.
>
> Bob S.
>
> Chris Kacoroski wrote:
>
> > Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> >
> > > Bob Snyder wrote:
> > >
> > > > My installation (in an older slack distro) of thunderbird 0.7.3 has 
> > > > no /usr/lib/mozilla-anything directory. No prefs.js under the 
> > > > thunderbird installation directory (/usr/local/thunderbird). I 
> > > > tried adding it to ~/.thunderbird/default/xxx.slt/prefs.js, but 
> > > > thunderbird overwrites this. Tried user.js in the same directory, 
> > > > but no joy.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > it won't overwrite it if you add it while thunderbird isn't running 
> > > ^_~.
> >
> > Bob,
> >
> > Brian is right.  Stop thunderbird and make the changes.  let me know 
> > if it works.
> >
> > ski
>
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