Firefox/Thunderbird integration in FC3

[david walcroft]

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.
>
> Is there any other package that needs to be installed for this to work 
> or other configuration to be done?
>
> Thanks!
>
>   Orion
>
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