[CS-FSLUG] Firefox and Thunderbird
Clawman
groundhog3000 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 5 03:52:28 CDT 2004
From XFCE.org,
> Hi,
> I installed the latest Mozilla.org builds of Firefox and Thunderbird
> on a Mandrake Linux system running GNOME 2.4.x a short time ago.
> Here's the problem: when Thunderbird attempts to open a web link,
> Firefox starts a separate process and thus tries to get the user to
> switch profiles (since the main one is already in use). Any ideas on
> how to get Thunderbird to send the URL to the already open Firefox
> process rather than starting a new one?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
Check this out:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12241
firefox -remote "openURL(${1}, new-window)" &
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