Then do you just point Thunderbird/Firefox to the wrappers by user.js or
prefs.js:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "path_to_wrapper");
Hmm, I hadn't really thought of that. I guess at work, GNOME is taking
care of the MIME handling or whatever it's really called. I don't know
what to tell you. That sounds like it could be right, though. You
might want to try posting a message to netscape.public.mozilla.general
newsgroup to find an accurate response for that pref. By the way, if
you edit users.js by hand, it'll be overwritten I believe.
I was using something like this in Mandrake, but it doesn't work in
BLFS. The first thing I'm going to try is DJ's
/usr/bin/{thunderbird,firefox} scripts. If that doesn't work, then I'll
try your wrappers.
I have a hunch that neither DJ's updated scripts nor the wrappers are
going to help you out unless there is a service that is accepting your
external call to open a URL. I think either of these options (and the
default firefox script) are set up to open URLs when they are sent them.
Are you running a desktop like GNOME or KDE? If you are, then look at
these two links about making firefox and thunderbird the default web and
mail clients:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Setting_Your_Default_Browser
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_mail_client
One interesting thing that I've discovered is that the /usr/bin scripts
and the run-mozilla.sh script all say that they set up a bunch of
environment stuff. However, when I run 'echo $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME' for
example, I get no return.
You shouldn't be able to see $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME or any other magic
variables because run-mozilla.sh is running in a subshell.
by the build from source) talk about ~.thunderbird (firefox
too)/init.d/* scripts.
To my knowledge, this has not been implemented. The 1.0x branch uses
the same start up style on *nix that mozilla's been using for a long
time, I think. I don't think this would affect it either.
Dan
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