[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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