Frefox 3 and Thunderbird 2 refuse to cooperate
Hi, After I upgraded to Firefox 3 I am having trouoble getting Firefox to invoke Thunderbird for mailto links, and Thunderbird to invoke Firefox for links in general. Googling reveals that installing gconf + deps maybe solves one of the problems: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/firefox-3.0-email-links... (haven't tried it yet), but the Thunderbird problem still eludes me. When I click on a link in Thunderbird I get "Couldn't load XPCOM." logged in the terminal which indicates there might be something xulrunner related, but I am not sure. Using CRUX 2.4, blackbox, as few ports as possible, would rather stay away from gnome if possible... ;-) Any hints? -- Hälsningar/Best regards, Tom ________________________________________________________________________ Tom Rindborg Phone: +46-8-599 984 40 Stockholm, Sweden MailTo:Tom.Rindborg@fatburen.org "If you have to hate, hate gently."
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:19:29 +0200 (CEST) Tom Rindborg wrote:
Hi,
After I upgraded to Firefox 3 I am having trouoble getting Firefox to invoke Thunderbird for mailto links, and Thunderbird to invoke Firefox for links in general. Googling reveals that installing gconf + deps maybe solves one of the problems:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/firefox-3.0-email-links...
(haven't tried it yet), but the Thunderbird problem still eludes me. When I click on a link in Thunderbird I get "Couldn't load XPCOM." logged in the terminal which indicates there might be something xulrunner related, but I am not sure.
Using CRUX 2.4, blackbox, as few ports as possible, would rather stay away from gnome if possible... ;-)
I tried this with Thunderbird-2.0.0.14/Firefox-3.0 [Thunderbird] 'Preferences/Advanced/Config editor', add/modify this values : user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox"); After that, clicking links in TB opens them in new tab in FF-3.0 [Firefox] about:config, add 'network.protocol-handler.app.mailto', '/usr/bin/thunderbird'. It should work now...
Any hints?
Pedja -- "While preceding your entrance with a grenade is a good tactic in Quake, it can lead to problems if attempted at work." - C Hacking
Hi Pedja, Thanks for your answer. On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Predrag Ivanovic wrote:
I tried this with Thunderbird-2.0.0.14/Firefox-3.0
[Thunderbird] 'Preferences/Advanced/Config editor', add/modify this values : user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox"); After that, clicking links in TB opens them in new tab in FF-3.0
[Firefox] about:config, add 'network.protocol-handler.app.mailto', '/usr/bin/thunderbird'. It should work now...
Problem is I have had those settings for ages, and they worked fine with FF2/TB2, but they stopped working when I upgraded to FF3. However, I managed to fix the FF->TB connection by creating a completely new user FF profile and clicking on a mailto link, up popped a dialog box which allowed me to specify TB as mail application. The info seems to be saved only in mimeTypes.rdf: $ grep thunderbird .mozilla/firefox/uvsxa5df.default/* .mozilla/firefox/uvsxa5df.default/mimeTypes.rdf: NC:prettyName="thunderbird" .mozilla/firefox/uvsxa5df.default/mimeTypes.rdf: NC:path="/usr/bin/thunderbird" /> and sure enough, when I copied the new mimeTypes.rdf to my old profile, the mailto links (as well as File/Send Link) started to work. Still no luck with the TB->FF connection though. I have tried recompiling TB and creating a new user profile without success. -- Hälsningar/Best regards, Tom ________________________________________________________________________ Tom Rindborg Phone: +46-8-599 984 40 Stockholm, Sweden MailTo:Tom.Rindborg@fatburen.org "If you have to hate, hate gently."
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