{"id":108,"date":"2010-01-03T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2010-01-03T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:09:19","slug":"thunderbird-and-firefox-integration-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird and Firefox integration problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time a new version of Firefox or Thunderbird comes out, it becomes impossible to open links in FF from TB and vice versa. Here’s what to do:<\/p>\n

Go into \/usr\/lib\/thunderbird-2.0.0.23\/thunderbird.cfg as root. Change it to read:<\/p>\n

pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.http”, “mozffremote”);
\npref(“network.protocol-handler.app.https”, “mozffremote”);
\npref(“network.protocol-handler.app.ftp”, “mozffremote”);
\npref(“network.protocol-handler.app.http”, “\/usr\/lib\/firefox-3.5.3\/firefox”);
\npref(“network.protocol-handler.app.https”, “\/usr\/lib\/firefox-3.5.3\/firefox”);
\npref(“network.protocol-handler.app.ftp”, “\/usr\/lib\/firefox-3.5.3\/firefox”);<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In FF: edit > preferences > applications > mail to.\u00a0 Choose ‘use thunderbird”. If that option does not show up choose “use other” and direct it to \/usr\/bin\/thunderbird<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, on thunderbird 3.0 for linux that workaround can be accomplished no more because Thunderbird calls a script\u00a0 \/usr\/lib\/thunderbird-3.0\/openbrowers.sh and attempts to read the preferred browser from the gconf settings.<\/p>\n

So to make it work you can edit the script and just add exec firefox<\/strong> after the #Exit with Error Message.<\/p>\n

# Exit with Error Message
\nexec firefox<\/strong><\/p>\n

or you can copy and paste in a terminal console.<\/p>\n

gconftool-2 -s \/desktop\/gnome\/url-handlers\/<\/p>\n

http\/command ‘\/usr\/bin\/firefox %s’ –type String
\ngconftool-2 -s \/desktop\/gnome\/url-handlers\/https\/command ‘\/usr\/bin\/firefox %s’ –type String<\/div>\n
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Every time a new version of Firefox or Thunderbird comes out, it becomes impossible to open links in FF from TB and vice versa. Here’s what to do: Go into \/usr\/lib\/thunderbird-2.0.0.23\/thunderbird.cfg as root. Change it to read: pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.http”, “mozffremote”); pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.https”, “mozffremote”); pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.ftp”, “mozffremote”); pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.http”, “\/usr\/lib\/firefox-3.5.3\/firefox”); pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.https”, “\/usr\/lib\/firefox-3.5.3\/firefox”); pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.ftp”, “\/usr\/lib\/firefox-3.5.3\/firefox”); In FF: edit > preferences > […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}