Re: Solution -- Open links in Firebird from Thunderbird

[Alon Weinstein]

Yeah, I tried the "-remote" thing, I wrote about it in my second 
message. Anyhow, it seems like the "ping()" returns "0", which means 
there's an instance open, when a Thunderbird instance exists even if you 
ping from MozillaFirebird-bin, and then when you try to do openURL you 
get an error, because there's no instance to do that.
Sucks.
I registered to some Mozilla mailing lists in hope to find answers to 
this problem.

Alon.

Lior Kesos wrote:
Alon Weinstein wrote:



Works for me. What needs to be improved is to make Firebird open a new 
tab/window if it's already loaded and not try to open a new instance 
(which will result in a "Select Profile"). Can anyone tell how to do 
that?


First of all thanks because this was bugging me as well.

Based on the next link -
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html
The correct way to approach this is to use the -remote command on 
MozillaFirebird invocation.
if you use -
$FIREBIRD_HOME/run-mozilla.sh $FIREBIRD_HOME/MozillaFirebird  -remote 
"openurl($1)"
instead of what you've entered that should've solved this our problem  -
_BUT_ ....
When I try running this with Firebird 0.6 which works fine with you're 
script - it has some kind of bug in the remote mechanisim that makes you 
get a "failed to send" error whenever thunderbird is open.
Before I jumped and sent firebird my Error report I used the nightly 
build of firebird to see if it's been fixed and it has !
_BUT_ ....
Now you're script doesn't work giving me a "stty: standard input: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device" each time I click a URL in thunderbird.
Any ideas?
Anyway I think we're starting to get to the right direction the 
thunderbird and Firebird duo are awesome and when this petty problem 
goes away I'm sure thunderbird will catch on as well.

regards -

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