[gentoo-user] Re: Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>]

On 2018-01-05 15:04, Dale wrote:

> Without this, I'll have to copy and paste all the links I want to
> open. That is just not a good option.  No matter which way I go,
> something is broken.

You can write a script that takes the contents of the clipboard [1],
possibly makes sure it is a valid URL, and then runs firefox with that
arg the way you want (ie. specific profile and new tab inside existing
instance, I'm sure firefox can do it if palemoon can).

Then bind the script to a short key sequence using your favorite desktop
environment method.  Now, to follow a link from from thunderbird, do
"Copy Link Location" from the context menu, then type the key sequence.
It is longer than a single click, but not prohibitively so, IMO.

[1] the xclip program is handy for that

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