Orion Poplawski wrote:
I'm testing out the standard firefox and thunderbird packages in Fedora Core 3. Clicking on mailto: links in firefox and http: url's in thunderbird does nothing on my system. Reading past post I was led to believe that this was configured automatically. I'm running KDE.Orion,
Is there any other package that needs to be installed for this to work or other configuration to be done?
Thanks!
Orion
Mozilla hasn't fixed the links to Thunderbird/Firefox yet (AFAIK) I use these scripts and pref.js to do it,
Place this 'openlink.sh' in /usr/lib/thunderbird*
#!/bin/sh
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/firefox*"
url="$1" if [ "x$url" = "x" ]; then url="about:blank" fi
if $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client openURL\("$url,new-tab"\); then exit 0 fi exec $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/firefox "$url"
# # Add to ~thunderbird pref.js #
# user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/lib/thunderbird-0.8.0/openlink.sh");
# Change .app.ftp to http,https on new lines for access
Place this as shown
#!/bin/sh # # Mailto.sh see notes below #
url="$1"
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/thunderbird*
if [ $(pidof thunderbird-bin | wc -w) -gt 0 ]; then
# thunderbird is running url=`echo "$url" | sed -e's/^mailto://'` $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -remote "mailto($url)" else
# thunderbird is not running $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -P default -compose $url fi
# Place mailto.sh in /usr/lib/firefox*/
#
# Place in user.js/pref.js in .mozilla/firefox
#
# user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/usr/lib/firefox/mailto.sh");
note * change as required
david