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Thunderbird and instant-messaging

Has anyone gotten the two to work together? When I click on Instant Message through Thunderbird, it says "AIM is not a registered protocol"

When I run Thunderbird in Windows, it works with AIM flawlessly, is there a way to get it to do something similar with either the official AIM client or gAIM?

Hopefully this is useful to someone.

To make Mozilla or Firefox pass AIM URIs to Gaim, do this:

As root, create the file /usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri with the following contents...

Code:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/gaim-remote uri $1

Then make the file executable by running...

Code:

chmod 755 /usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri

Close Mozilla/Firefox.

Open your prefs.js file (~/.firefox/default/XXXXXXXX.slt/prefs.js) and enter the follwing at the end of the file...

Code:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.aim", "/usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri");

Save prefs.js and then open Mozilla/Firefox.

Try out an AIM URI (aim:goim?screenname=jholmstadt).

Potentially, this could method be simplified by passing the "uri" argument to gaim-remote directly in prefs.js. However I don't know how to do this, or if it is even possible.