You are moving the file 'mozilla' to the same directory under the name 'mozillaold' Basically just renaming the file



You are creating a symbolic link which points at the location of firefox

For more information enter these in the command line (not what is in the parentheses):

man mv (the manual for mv)
man ln (the manual for ln)

To exit the manual you press q

wow - I think I got it! Thank you all!!!

I used this thread to try an make firefox my default. I successfully moved the mozilla file in the first command but making the link to firefox did not work. I think this might be because the firefox folder on my machine is in /usr/lib/ . If this is the case how should my command line look in terminal?

# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/mozilla

Basically, you are saying:

ln -s - create a symbolic link

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox - this is the target file you are linking, from the root all the way down to the executable. Note that there is a directory named firefox, and the executable named firefox is located within it. If you leave off the second "firefox" it won't work.

/usr/bin/mozilla - this is the name of the link -- when something goes looking for /usr/bin/mozilla, the link tells it to look at /usr/lib/firefox/firefox instead.

Hope that helps.

mv = move = backup old mozilla script
ln -s = link and -s = symbolic link.

basically backs up old file and creates a link from mozilla to firefox so that evolutions thinks that it's opening mozilla but the os opens firefox

here is a related queston. how do you get thunderbird to open firefox when clicking a url link in an email? using kde.

Just a question in relation to this topic.

I have made Firefox my default browser following the instructions above. The problem I now am facing is, if I have Firefox open, then click on an external link (from say X-Chat) I get the 'Select User Profile' box.

How can I make it so I opens up in a new tab in the currently open Firefox. I also have Tabbrowser Extentions install.

Kristijan

To avoid the profile manager, change the firefox script in the firefox folder for this script http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachme...12&action=view attached to comment #91 in this bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177996#c91 Save this script to disk and rename it firefox. Make it executable. To make it open new tabs instead of new windows got to line 188 and change so it readsthen swap it for the firefox script in the firefox folder.

i found this link at mozilla.org. it explains how to write srcipt files that will allow firefox and thunderbird to work together flawlessly. very easy to do and understand

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...=592801#592801

Yeah, alright. Except the script posted to open the incoming url in a new tab doesn't work. Firefox returns an error when you run command:

firefox -remote "openurl(website)"
> no running window found

Any idea why firefox can't see itself?

did you make sure to change te scripts to reflect the paths you have to firefox? read the whole thread i posted cause one of the first scripts the guy wrote did something funky and he wrote it over again

Since this is quite old, I hope you get a notice of the post.

I did what you said in Post #2 to change my default browser.
Only thing different is I also did it for Epiphany, which is what
Thunderbird would open on my system. After that change, if
I clicked a link within a Thunderbird email message, it would
open Firefox but give me the "default profile" message that
the other person mentioned. So I downloaded this script, and
changed line 188 as mentioned, made it executable by issuing
chmod a+x firefox and replaced the old script.

Now, however, when I click on a link in Thunderbird, with Firefox
open of course, nothing happens at all. Can you help?

if you want to use firefox and thunderbird then follow the tips that Beastux writes in this thread

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...age=15&start=0

i am not sure if they work with the most recent build of FF/TB but i would assume they do. these scripts will open firefox when clicking a link in an email in thunderbird (or on a new tab if firefox is already open) and it will create a new mail message in thunderbird when clicking a mailto link on a webpage in firefox. the scripts work really well as long as you edit them correctly (paths to firefox and thunderbird and stuff like that)

good luck

I did it. The instructions, however, are distro specific. Changing
where I thought was correct, it now opens Firefox if it's not open,
and a new tab if it is open. However, it opens the page (your link
from the LQ email notice, for instance) as file:///tmp/showthread.php
so that you can't paste into the thread.

I think I've got a bunch of convoluted files now. I'm using Firefox-0.9.3
and Thunderbird-version 0.8 (20040913), Slackware 10.0 and
KDE 3.2.3

nah, those instructions arent distro specific. all you need to do is edit the scripts so they point to where you installed thunderbird and firefox.

i had that issue before too, where it shows the page as being opened from a temp local location and if you did something like hit the back button it wouldnt work. the scripts worked for me.