Firefox3 > Send Link > won't use Thunderbird

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 23 17:42:21 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 12:29 -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
>> Robin Laing wrote:
>>     
>>> Jim wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 14:21 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:04 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> Fc8, Firefox 3
>>>>>>>> When using  File  >  Send Link in Firefox 2 it would open 
>>>>>>>> Thunderbird to send link, but in Firefox3 the feature doesn't work.
>>>>>>>> In /,mozilla/firefox/default/user.js file, to select thunderbird, 
>>>>>>>> but it won't work in Firefox 3.
>>>>>>>> Below is contents of  user.js
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/usr/bin/thunderbird"); 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> user_pref("browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs", true);
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What's different in FF3 ??
>>>>>>>>             
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> AFAIK this is a GTK setting, not specific to Firefox (FF uses 
>>>>>>> GTK). Try
>>>>>>> setting TB in the Gnome Preferred Applications dialogue. If you 
>>>>>>> use KDE,
>>>>>>> run gnome-control-center to get to it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> poc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Sorry about that, I'am running  KDE and I don't have
>>>>>>
>>>>>> gnome-control-center  installed, do you know howto do this in KDE ?
>>>>>> Thanks for your responds.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>             
>>>>> No I don't, but note that FF is a GTK application compiled with GTK
>>>>> libraries so KDE has no direct way of controlling it. You could 
>>>>> probably
>>>>> edit the gconf files directly, but I don't recommend it. Just run "yum
>>>>> install control-center". It won't get in the way of using KDE.
>>>>>
>>>>> poc
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>           
>>>> Boy that sure is a weird  way of  having to set it up, but that did 
>>>> the trick , Thanks for the help
>>>> Even tho I'm not a Gnome user, I think I'll keep that 
>>>> Gnome-control-center.
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> On F8 I am using the REMI version of Thunderbird and FF3 with no 
>>> issues on KDE.
>>>
>>>       
>> Yeah I found that out when I installed it on my brother's x86_64 
>> computer last night, everything installed without a hitch.
>> But for some reason it didn't go that easy on my x86_64 box.  But one 
>> thing I did find out , by having to install
>> Gnome-control-center or rpm "control-center" to setup Thunderbird as 
>> mail client. That the Gnome-control-center
>> is very helpful in KDE,  It closely knitted to Fedora, than KDE's 
>> Control Center is. So I now have a new Icon on my Desktop.
>> Please don't tell my KDE friends that I found a app. in Gnome that is 
>> better than in KDE.
>>     
>
> It has nothing to do with being "better". As I already said, Firefox is
> a Gnome application and pays attention to the Gconf database (Gnome's
> equivalent of the Windows Registry). KDE uses a completely different
> system for storing configuration info. You need the Gnome tools for some
> Gnome stuff and the KDE tools for some KDE stuff.
>
> poc
>
>   
Well !!, Then I got the best of both worlds.




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