[TriLUG] choosing browser from Thunderbird

[Joseph Tate]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:53:52 -0500, Dan Monjar <dan at daijin.dissimulo.com> wrote:
> Mandrake 10.1 / KDE 3.2 / Thunderbird 1.0
> 
> How do I specify which browser to use for clicked on links in a mail
> message?

Well, what I have is the following:

#!/bin/sh

MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/firefox

url="$1"
if [ "x$url" = "x" ]; then
  url="about:blank"
fi

if $MOZILLA_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client openURL\("$url",new-tab\); then
  exit 0
fi
exec $MOZILLA_HOME/firefox "$url"

is a script that lives in /usr/local/thunderbird as browser.sh

Then in my user's prefs.js, I have the following:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/local/thunderbird/browser.sh
");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/local/thunderbird/browser.s
h");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/local/thunderbird/browser.
sh");

This will open links in a new tab in firefox.  Of course you may
change the openURL line to change that behavior.  I leave that as an
exercise for the reader.


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Joseph Tate
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