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02-03-2006, 03:08 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Toronto, Canada
Distribution: Suse 10.0 & YDL 4.1
Posts: 52
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aMSN Error
I just installed aMSN. Only problem is when I try to access my inbox via the link on aMSN (where it says "3 new messages in inbox" or whatever) ... it gives the following error:
Can't execute application: mozilla $url. Check Preferences
Now I know where to go in preferences, I just don't know what to type in the allocated space (being a newb to linux) to have aMSN use FireFox as it's browser.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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02-03-2006, 03:39 PM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: London, England
Distribution: Usually Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS
Posts: 234
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firefox $url ?
you may have to specify the whole path to the firefox executable if it isn't in a PATH variable directory, but it probably is
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02-03-2006, 06:55 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Toronto, Canada
Distribution: Suse 10.0 & YDL 4.1
Posts: 52
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Thanks :)
Wow, perfect haha, thanks a bunch ... I was afraid that being a newb would have ppl scolding me for the dumbest questions ... but this really isn't like a windows world hehe
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02-07-2006, 11:17 AM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: London, England
Distribution: Usually Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS
Posts: 234
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no worries man, i mean we were all newbs once!
GNU/Linux, like all OSs, will throw problems at you from time to time but just keep LQ in your bookmarks (as I have done!) and you should be fine
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03-18-2006, 06:08 PM
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Registered: Apr 2005
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 213
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firefox $url will attempt to open a new firefox profile, its better to have it open a new tab like in xchat
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03-18-2006, 07:21 PM
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Registered: Apr 2005
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 213
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I would like to add use this in the preference
firefox -remote openURL($url,new-tab)
that will open the link in a new tab if the browser is already open
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