On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:27:48AM +0100, John Pettigrew wrote: : In a previous message, James Philp wrote: : : > 1. make it such that it starts evolution on maito click. installed mozex but : > am getting a long error about not being able to run executable : : You need to install as root (assuming that you installed Firebird from the : rpm). I think you also need to run firebird as root before running as user. I : was slightly disappointed in mozex's handling of mailtos - you can't just : click on them (this still brings up the protocol error) but you can get a menu : that has an option to launch your mailclient. : : > 2. open new windows in tabs: tab browser extensions just crashes firebird : > and need to kill it - stuck completely. : : Firebird supports tabs anyway, you don't need the extension for this. Actually, you need the extension if you want *everything* to be opened in a tab and *never* in a window. Pretty nifty extension at keeping the cluttered-windows away. Regardless, to answer the original question. Extensions in Mozilla/Firebird are a real pain. The problem is that some will install under your user profile, but most of them won't. You can experiment and see which ones will only install as root. However, installing as root doesn't solve all your problems. Some extensions have badly written installers, and thus install with the wrong permissions. Thus, you'll need to correct this in order to use the extensions as a non-root user (this is definitely the case with Tabbrowser Extension). Try the following: 1. cd to the chrome directory (it could be /opt/MozillaFirebird/lib/chrome, /usr/local/lib/firebird/chrome -- all depends on which package you installed). 2. fix subdir perms: find . -type d | xargs chmod 0755 3. file file perms: find . -type f | xargs chmod 0644 Please let us know how this works out for you. --Jerry -- Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!

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In a previous message, James Philp wrote:

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1. make it such that it starts evolution on maito click. installed mozex but am getting a long error about not being able to run executable

You need to install as root (assuming that you installed Firebird from the rpm). I think you also need to run firebird as root before running as user. I was slightly disappointed in mozex's handling of mailtos - you can't just click on them (this still brings up the protocol error) but you can get a menu that has an option to launch your mailclient.

Whether I click on mailto or whether I right-click to bring up the menu and then Link => email, doesn't matter I always get the protocol error! james. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

John, This isn't really true. I use Firebird and the MozEx extension. I've got it set up to work with mailtos perfectly. I use Evolution as my mail client. In setting up MozEx, you have to check the "Intercept mailto: clicks" checkbox. Once you've done that, enter the command line for the mail client in the text box labeled: "Mailer command". For Evolution, I had to enter: "/path.to/evolution mailto:%a?Subject=%s" %a is the email address and %s is the subject. Now, when I click on a mailto, Evolution opens up with a composer window all set to go! Rick On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:27:48 +0100, "John Pettigrew" said:

In a previous message, James Philp wrote:

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1. make it such that it starts evolution on maito click. installed mozex but am getting a long error about not being able to run executable

You need to install as root (assuming that you installed Firebird from the rpm). I think you also need to run firebird as root before running as user. I was slightly disappointed in mozex's handling of mailtos - you can't just click on them (this still brings up the protocol error) but you can get a menu that has an option to launch your mailclient. -- Rick Friedman rickfriedman@myfastmail.com Registered Linux user: #269579

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Thanks John and Rick, Thanks for this. I managed to get it to work. The latest Firebird rpm from suse does include a configuration panel under Extensions/Settings. Where you can enter mailto parameters. Now it works but in order to work you need to specify two things: 1: full path to mail prog 2: a temporary folder where it can write in your home. great stuff! james. --- John Pettigrew wrote:

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In setting up MozEx, you have to check the "Intercept mailto: clicks" checkbox.

Ah - firebird (as I said) doesn't seem to include the mozex panel (at least, using 0.60 from SuSE, it doesn't), so there is no such checkbox. However, I played with mozilla and found the setting that needs to be made.

Edit ~/.mozilla/default/<profile>/prefs.js and add two lines, as follows

user_pref("mozex.command.mailer", "<mailer command>"); user_pref("mozex.intercept.mailto", true);

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For obvious reasons, there are 2 versions of the Extensions- one for Linux and the other for Windows systems. Those for Win may not (yet) be available for Linux. You need to examine 'closely' the description of the Extension after you have selected it in the main selection area.

Huh?? What the hell are you talking about? There aren't seperate versions of extensions based on OS. The same TBE that you install on Windows works on Linux. Same for every other extension I've used. Even those that access/run external programs. Extensions are written in XUL/JavaScript. I just looked through the MozEX source and the only Windows specific thing I found was to use "C:\\windows\\temp" as the default temp directory and "\\" as a directory separator. I used to use the Leech extension before the pref dialog change (it never got updated and is pretty much dead - maybe I should learn XUL and revive it..). It's defaults were for windows style directories, but a quick change to the preferences, and it worked in Linux with no problems. -- trey

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For obvious reasons, there are 2 versions of the Extensions- one for Linux and the other for Windows systems. Those for Win may not (yet) be available for Linux. You need to examine 'closely' the description of the Extension after you have selected it in the main selection area.

Huh?? What the hell are you talking about?

Have a look at the extensions called "MNG Support" and "Spiderzilla".

He was asking about TBE and MozEX, neither of which of OS specific versions as you implied. As to the extensions you brought up: It looks like the difference between Spiderzilla for Win and and Spiderzilla for Linux is that the Windows version includes the httrack program with it and the Linux version doesn't (instead just giving you a link to the source on the homepage). Whoopie! If I already had httrack on a Windows machine (assuming I had a Windows machine), I could use the Linux version with a few changes to the JavaScript part of the extension. Leech (which used wget) handled this difference better by keeping that kind of information in the configuration as opposed to the extension itself. MNG Support is different because it's including a library of compiled code which is something that almost no other extension does. Eventually, I'm pretty sure that MNG support is going back into the standard Mozilla distribution. The reason it was disabled is because there was some stability issues with the current implementation. -- trey