Firefox help

FF103 · 11-18-2004, 01:27 PM

A little help please. I just installed firefox and thunderbird on my laptop running Yoper 2.1, and all is well except for one small problem. When I click on "send a link" in firefox , nothing happens.What do I need to edit to point firefox toward thunderbird so I can email links or pages. Thanks in advance for any help.

secesh · 11-18-2004, 01:34 PM

wow, i never noticed firefox had that functionality -- i always copy/paste

secesh · 11-18-2004, 02:48 PM

got your solution --

create (or edit) file user.js in firefox folder --mine is in ~/.mozilla/firefox/[randowm string].default/

add the line:

Code:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/home/yourusername/ff-email");

now edit ff-email to:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
thunderbird -remote 'ping()' || exec thunderbird "$@" # exec thunderbird if there's no instance running
thunderbird -remote "xfeDoCommand(openInbox)" # otherwise raise window,
if [ "${1%%:*}" = 'mailto' ]; then
  thunderbird -remote "mailto(${1#!mailto:})" # and maybe send the mailto:
else
  thunderbird -remote "mailto($1)" # or just the address if it doesn't start with mailto:

chmod +x /home/yourusername/ff-email

you'll need to custom that a little to your system, but i hope you get the point...

--thanx to http://www.wlug.org.nz/MozillaFirefoxNotes

FF103 · 11-18-2004, 07:06 PM

Thank you secesh for the reply, but I got off track somewhere. Was the first line in the file "user.js" supposed to create the file "ff-email" in /home/user ? if so I didn't get that, so I didn't know what to do with the second part.I guess I need a little more hand holding on this one if it's not to much trouble,I'd really appreciate it.Thanks for your help.

secesh · 11-18-2004, 07:19 PM

if you don't have user.js, the ONLY line you need would be

Code:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/home/yourusername/ff-email");

if it already existed, just append that line. does that get you there, or would you like a detailed step-by-step?