[CS-FSLUG] Firefox and Thunderbird

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 04:52, Clawman wrote:
>  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)" &

Rather than doing this for each place that calls firefox, seems like it
would be better to just put this script in a directory further up the
PATH and specify the firefox program as /usr/bin/firefox in the script.
Then you could stop worrying about it.

JSR/