Mozilla and firebird

Peter Eddy petere at atg.com
Wed Feb 11 23:26:22 UTC 2004


Schlueri wrote:

> http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html
> 
> Take a look to http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html and
> '$ vi /usr/bin/mozilla'
> 
> The Mozilla start script checks if mozilla is already started. 
> The remote client and script from mozilla-firebird does the same
> (i.E. use of DAG's RPM) and the remote client speaks to mozilla to open a new window.
> I've use the mozilla.org gtk/xft binary of fresh mozilla firefox and write my own script, 
> now one it's indepentend from the other.
> 
> This all prevents you from "Profile in use" notification on start mozilla/firebird twice.

Funny thing about the new thunderbird 0.5, it'll open a page in mozilla 
without creating a new window just fine. What isn't fine is that it 
saves the page pointed to by the URL to /tmp and opens mozilla on the 
local file. I'm talking about HTML files. What the heck were they thinking?

Peter





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