Firefox from Thunderbird

tjd · 11-10-2004, 11:53 PM

I am using Firefox and Thunderbird with Fedora Core 2, and pretty pleased both.

However, I can't figure out how to be able to click on a URL that appears in a Thunderbird email message and have that URL pop up in Firefox. Right now what happens is I get the Firefox profile box asking if I want to make another Firefox profile.

Any ideas?

theonebeyond · 11-11-2004, 01:49 AM

Would like to know it too....

since I installed Firefox 1.0 it came automatically without doning anything for it ... so it works in general.... but I'd like to know why or how I could have done it myself.

And I'd like to know how I can tell Thunderbird to open a clicked URL in a new tab or new window iof Firefox ... with Mozilla it worked like this from the beginning

Greetings, Sascha

z-vet · 11-11-2004, 08:04 AM

You need a script to start Firefox from external progs.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

URL="$*"

FFOX=/usr/local/firefox/firefox
FFOX_REMOTE="${FFOX} -a firefox -remote"

firefox_running()
{
    $FFOX_REMOTE "openurl($URL,new-tab)"
}

firefox_new()
{
    $FFOX $URL
}


if $FFOX_REMOTE "ping()" 2>&1 | grep "Error:" >/dev/null; then
    firefox_new;
else
    firefox_running;
fi

Put it in subdirectory of your /home and call it start-firefox.sh, i think it's enough.

theonebeyond · 11-11-2004, 08:06 AM

Thanks, but ...

How does that come?

Does Thunderbird look for such a script-file?

z-vet · 11-11-2004, 09:06 AM

I don't use Thunderbird for last time, but when i used it, it worked fine. Now i use KMail and it uses the script too. Just put it in ~/scripts and i believe it will work.