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| Newer page: | version 15 | Last edited on Sunday, December 12, 2004 5:02:44 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 14 | Last edited on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:23:14 pm | by MarcVinyesRaso | Revert |
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-!!! No http
handler under linux by default
+!! [HTTP]
handler issues
-I found that
the http protocol was not set up with a handler under linux. Its possible that with a more recent version of GNOME this would 'just work', however I used the following trick (similar to the mailto: protocol handler in MozillaFirefoxNotes)
+Set
the preference
-Note, that I use MozillaFirefox as my browser, so its this that I wish to set up as the
handler for
http:
+ user_pref("network.protocol-
handler.app.
http", "/usr/local/bin/firefox-helper.sh");
-First of all, I created a handler script to run firefox. It can be found at http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/firefox-helper.sh
-
-I put this under ~/bin, made it executable,
and tested
it with '~/bin/firefox-helper.sh http://www.wlug.org.nz/' -
the wlug homepage opens in a new tab.
-
-I then added the following entry to my prefs.js under my thunderbird profile dir:
-
- user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/home/dhtrl1/bin/firefox-helper.sh");
-
-and restarted thunderbird.
-
-''Try putting it in user.js not prefs.js as Thunderbird will just over-write this... -- ReneBartosh''%%%
-+ ''Close Thunderbird before you edit, and you won't have that problem -- DrewBroadley''
-
-''With Firefox .9, since they changed the way URL handling goes, you'll need to add -a firefox to your firefox-helper.sh script.''
-
-
- '' ${FIREBIRD_PATH}/firefox -a firefox -remote "openURL($@,new-tab)"''
-''instead of''
- '' ${FIREBIRD_PATH}/firefox -remote "openURL($@ ,new-tab)"''
-''--YacinNadji (MarC corrected the space left bewteen $@ and new-tab)''
-
-''I have an alternative:''
-
-''${FIREFOX_PATH}/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openURL($@,new-tab)"&''
-
-''!! VERY IMPORTANT (YacinNadji didn't say it and I had some trouble with it...): Note that there should be no space between the the comma and the command after the url
or you get a "Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error".''
-
-''--MarC''
-
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-
-By the way, I've developped an evolution to the firefox-helper.sh script.
-
-It works with KDE, gnome, graphical console, opens new windows or new tab when necessary, etc... (solves zcat(1) problem, below this)
-
-download it at: http://www.iespana.es/infogeneral_es/contrib/mozz
-
-don't forget to modify variable FIREFOX_PATH to put
your firefox path
-
-(and if you use firefox under .9 you may have change the call of firefox and uncomment one line)
-
-enjoy! - MarC
-
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-
-I've just spend the last couple of hours trying to figure out a fairly similar problem! Under KDE3, Thunderbird opens URL links with Konquerer (the default browser for opening a URL), and I wanted to use Firefox. So I figured the easiest way would be somewhere in kde's config, changing the default browser that it
uses to open URL's..
-
-Honestly, even Microsoft doesn't make it THIS HARD to change your default browser!!
-
-The easy solution was to change the browser Thunderbird uses. You don't need any shell script however. I'm using this;
- user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
-
-I'd still like to know if there's a way of changing the default web browser for everything in KDE though
.
-
- - zcat(1)
+and point
it at
the MozillaFirefoxStartupScript
or whatever
your distribution
uses natively
.
----
In addition, so Thunderbird can redirect some additional protocls ([FTP] and [HTTPS]) add the following:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/location/to/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/location/to/firefox");
-Aswel
as that, you can define another [FTP] program to handle the [FTP] transactions (though [Mozilla] handles them just fine, try the following:
+As well
as that, you can define another [FTP] program to handle the [FTP] transactions (though [Mozilla] handles them just fine, try the following:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/location/to/ftpprogram");
-
-- [DrewBroadley]
-
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