[opensuse] Calling Firefox from Thunderbird
Apologies for asking this question. Not too long ago someone had a problem of Firefox not being executed when s/he clicked on an URL mentioned in a msg in Thunderbird. The answer on how to resolve this problem was provided. After checking all places I could think of, I cannot find what the solution to this hassle is. Could someone please either give me the answer or provide the link where the answer is provided. (I've had TB and FF running now for years but they have been my own installations, ie directly from Mozilla and installed in my home directory. Last night I decided to use the Firefox as installed by openSUSE 11.0 -- and the wheels fell off :'( : I cannot 'call up' FF from TB.) Ciao. -- If you don't succeed you run the risk of failure. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Basil Chupin wrote:
Apologies for asking this question.
Not too long ago someone had a problem of Firefox not being executed when s/he clicked on an URL mentioned in a msg in Thunderbird. The answer on how to resolve this problem was provided. After checking all places I could think of, I cannot find what the solution to this hassle is.
Could someone please either give me the answer or provide the link where the answer is provided.
(I've had TB and FF running now for years but they have been my own installations, ie directly from Mozilla and installed in my home directory. Last night I decided to use the Firefox as installed by openSUSE 11.0 -- and the wheels fell off :'( : I cannot 'call up' FF from TB.)
Ciao.
Basil, I can't find the post either, but I think it is: Edit->Preferences->Config:Editor Add/Edit network.protocol-handler.app.ftp user set string /usr/bin/firefox network.protocol-handler.app.http user set string /usr/bin/firefox network.protocol-handler.app.https user set string /usr/bin/firefox -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Apologies for asking this question.
Not too long ago someone had a problem of Firefox not being executed when s/he clicked on an URL mentioned in a msg in Thunderbird. The answer on how to resolve this problem was provided. After checking all places I could think of, I cannot find what the solution to this hassle is.
Could someone please either give me the answer or provide the link where the answer is provided.
(I've had TB and FF running now for years but they have been my own installations, ie directly from Mozilla and installed in my home directory. Last night I decided to use the Firefox as installed by openSUSE 11.0 -- and the wheels fell off :'( : I cannot 'call up' FF from TB.)
Ciao.
Basil,
I can't find the post either, but I think it is:
Edit->Preferences->Config:Editor
Add/Edit
network.protocol-handler.app.ftp user set string /usr/bin/firefox network.protocol-handler.app.http user set string /usr/bin/firefox network.protocol-handler.app.https user set string /usr/bin/firefox
Thanks, David, but I tried this, as suggested by another person in a private msg to me, and it does not work. I didn't use this "fix" in my previous installations of SuSE/openSUSE so didn't really think - but was hopefull! :-) - that this "fix" would work, but it didn't. I have solved the problem by installing both Thunderbird and Firefox as provided on the 11.0 DVD instead of "rolling my own" from Mozilla.org (which always worked in the past years). Installing TB using YaST2 and running it, fortunately, had it recognise all the mail/settings I have in my (home) /.thunderbird directory so nothing was lost - and clicking on an URL in TB brings up FF. (BTW, there is an error in the symlink for firefox in /usr/bin, "@firefox". This now shows "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.sh"; the '.sh' should not be there.) Ciao. -- If you don't succeed you run the risk of failure. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Basil Chupin wrote:
(BTW, there is an error in the symlink for firefox in /usr/bin, "@firefox". This now shows "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.sh"; the '.sh' should not be there.)
That is no error and the link should actually point exactly to that script. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Basil Chupin
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David C. Rankin
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Wolfgang Rosenauer