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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday, 5 January 2018 21:04:30 GMT Dale wrote:
>
>> I found someone else wanting the same thing, well, close enough anyway.
>> It seems this isn't doable.  I find it odd that a email program can't be
>> configured to open links in a running browser without the two programs
>> being the same.  Linky.
>>
>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/999493
>>
>> 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.
> Doesn't the Default Applications choice in System Settings help? (I think 
> I'm right in that you use KDE.)
>

I was able to tell it to open with Firefox.  That is as far as it would
go tho.  I have multiple profiles for Firefox and while it would let me
pick which one to use, it would only show a error that it was already in
use.  It wouldn't open links as a new tab for example.  I found someone
else wanting the same thing as me and it appears it doesn't exist.  Link
is above.  I may look into Palemoon.  I found a post that seems to claim
it works.  I'm not sure that LastPass works with Palemoon so even if it
does, another problem pops up.  The huge change to Firefox with version
57 isn't likely to help this.  I'm also losing some addons to that change. 

So, Seamonkey doesn't have LastPass as a option but Firefox doesn't have
a way to open email links in a new tab if one uses multiple profiles. 
Either way, something is broken.  I'm not the only one that thinks this
is weird for Firefox/Thunderbird to not have this sort of feature. 

I think if I could tell Thunderbird to open with a command *and* I could
add options to that command, I could get it to work.  That would allow
me to tell it to open with Firefox but to do so with a new tab instead
of a new instance.  Thing is, it allows me to tell it to use Firefox but
does not allow me to add options. 

I'll come up with something.  I'm just not sure what yet.  I wish I
could just get LastPass to work with Seamonkey.  That would only leave
me with a very few sites that don't work with Seamonkey. 

Dale

:-)  :-)