[gentoo-user] firefox - thunderbird integration

[gentoo-user] firefox - thunderbird integration

[Laurent lejeune]

Hi everyone!

I've been recently trying to make firefox and thunderbird work well 
together, i.e

   1. make mailto links from firefox launch thunderbird
   2. make url from thunderbird open in firefox

After following a well spread trick, (described here 
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2005/01/firefox_and_thu.html)

Doing (1) doesn't do anything at all.

Doing (2) downloads the page as html to some temp folder, then opens it 
in firefox, but the images don't show correctly, certainly because they 
are not downloaded... Anyway that's not what i want.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Peace.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox - thunderbird integration

[Joachim]

Laurent lejeune pisze:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I've been recently trying to make firefox and thunderbird work well 
> together, i.e
>
>   1. make mailto links from firefox launch thunderbird
>   2. make url from thunderbird open in firefox
>
After reading

http://www.zulustips.com/2007/03/28/forcing-thunderbird-to-open-links-in-firefox.html

I found out I can do this by going to preferences->advanced "General" 
tab, click settings editor and add following settngs ( string type):

|network.protocol-handler.app.ftp
network.protocol-handler.app.http||||
network.protocol-handler.app.https|

as value set your Firefox path ( for all of them).||

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox - thunderbird integration

[Laurent lejeune]

Joachim wrote:
> Laurent lejeune pisze:
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I've been recently trying to make firefox and thunderbird work well 
>> together, i.e
>>
>>   1. make mailto links from firefox launch thunderbird
>>   2. make url from thunderbird open in firefox
>>
> After reading
>
> http://www.zulustips.com/2007/03/28/forcing-thunderbird-to-open-links-in-firefox.html 
>
>
> I found out I can do this by going to preferences->advanced "General" 
> tab, click settings editor and add following settngs ( string type):
>
> |network.protocol-handler.app.ftp
> network.protocol-handler.app.http||||
> network.protocol-handler.app.https|
>
> as value set your Firefox path ( for all of them).||
>
>
i've checked that those entries are set to my firefox path 
(/usr/bin/firefox). The thing is , once again, that  thunderbird does 
it's job of launching firefox, but the page that opens is a *downloaded 
*version such as
file:///tmp/blabla.html
where i would like it to open the url.

btw, i've managed to fix the mailto problem, now firefox opens 
thunderbird just fine. I've did it the "newbie" way by going to the 
preference->Applications and adding a mailto entry. Though i'm sure that 
i already try doing that before, anyway...

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox - thunderbird integration

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Laurent lejeune wrote:
> i've checked that those entries are set to my firefox path 
> (/usr/bin/firefox). The thing is , once again, that  thunderbird does 
> it's job of launching firefox, but the page that opens is a *downloaded 
> *version such as
> file:///tmp/blabla.html
> where i would like it to open the url.

That's not how it is supposed to be though.  I have the same settings, 
and Firefox opens the URL correctly.  Perhaps try with a new and clean 
Thunderbird profile.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox - thunderbird integration

[Laurent]

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Thanks, creating a new profile did it!
pretty frustrating that we don't know what specific option did the mess up.
Maybe what caused this is that the profile was the same i used with icedove
(debian port of thunderbird)

bye.

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:

> Laurent lejeune wrote:
>
>> i've checked that those entries are set to my firefox path
>> (/usr/bin/firefox). The thing is , once again, that  thunderbird does it's
>> job of launching firefox, but the page that opens is a *downloaded *version
>> such as
>> file:///tmp/blabla.html
>> where i would like it to open the url.
>>
>
> That's not how it is supposed to be though.  I have the same settings, and
> Firefox opens the URL correctly.  Perhaps try with a new and clean
> Thunderbird profile.
>
>
>

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