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

Great,

I am using Debian and it installs that script, so I did not have to 
think about it.

cheers,

ski

Bob Snyder wrote:
> 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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