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Sean Sullivan wrote: |
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> Know what the sad part is here? It takes all of 2 seconds to get Kmail |
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> to use Firefox to open links even though it comes preconfigured to use |
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> Konqueror :~) |
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> Don't get me wrong I love Thunderbird, I just think it's kinda odd :P |
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> -Sean |
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Actually, the problem turned out to be with how the mozilla scripts work. |
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Essentially instead of launching a binary directly, /usr/bin/firefox |
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sets a few variables and then calls a launcher script which can launch |
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any of the mozilla products. I'm not exactly sure why they do it this |
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way, but that is how it works. |
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The problem is that once you've launched one product (such as |
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thunderbird), the variables set in the launch scripts are still in the |
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environment, and it can tend to cause confusion when the script is |
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called again to launch another firefox from within thunderbird. |
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So, getting thunderbird to use firefox is easy (well, if you call |
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installing the about:config extension and then manually changing the |
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config settings easy). The hard part was getting the launcher to |
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actually launch firefox after running /usr/bin/firefox. |
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Hey, I didn't design it... :) (I'm sure there is some deep logic to |
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the design which is escaping me...) |
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