Thunderbird 0.4 released

pickarooney · 06-12-2003 5:35pm #1

All-new shiny version of Thunderbird available here. There's now (sort-of) support for opening links in mails directly in your default browser, although the instructions for setting it up in KDE are pretty vague : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html

I've not managed to find that user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/path/to/the_shell_script %s"); argument or the file it's supposed to go in yet.

OfflerCrocGod · 06-12-2003 6:47pm

I only just got RC2 three days ago:rolleyes:, oh well, the opening link in browser thing works fine in Windows. I use Evolution in Linux and Thunderbird in Windows but I may replace Evolution I'm very pleased with Thunderbird in Win.

Stark · 06-12-2003 7:16pm

I like thunderbird but sometimes find it's not as responsive as mozilla mail/netscape mail/outlook express

slartibardfast · 08-12-2003 11:22pm

hi,
the place to add the user_pref bit is the prefs.js file in the .thunderbird/default/????.slt folder in your home directory.

I have mine pointing to the mentioned shell script as 'run' in my firebird directory, works a charm!

pickarooney · 09-12-2003 7:12am

Excellent! It opened a dialog box asking which application to use the first time, but I just pointed it to Firebird and now it does it every time. Now I just need to edit the script so it opens a new tab in an existing browser and I'm sorted. I suppose it's somewhere in the xremote line?

#!/bin/sh

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/share/MozillaFirebird
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME

# get URL to load
url=$1; [ -z $url ] && url=about:blank

# try xremote first
$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client openURL$$url$ && exit 0

# if xremote failed, then launch the browser
exec $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/MozillaFirebird $url

slartibardfast · 09-12-2003 11:45am

a change to this should get it to go, although I'm linux-less for the moment!

(old) $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client openURL$$url$ && exit 0

(new) $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client openURL\($url\,"new-tab") && exit 0

I'll test it when I get home,
link: http://jonathon.quotidian.org/ (there is more info here)

Good Luck

zAbbo · 09-12-2003 12:45pm

tis heavy on ram(30meg), that said im using it in linux and windwoes

pickarooney · 10-12-2003 9:19pm

Bizarre, I added the new-tab bit and it stopped working, so I copied back the old version and now that won't work either.

Error launching browser window:type error
components.classes'[@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;]' has no properties.

slartibardfast · 11-12-2003 9:05am

i used the one in the link when I did get home, works reasonably well.

hope you get it sorted,

pickarooney · 11-12-2003 9:41pm

I think the mozilla-xremote-client isn't working for me, as it always tries to open a new instance of Firebird when I click on a link. Strange, it's exactly like in the script in the link ( http://jonathon.quotidian.org/ ) ???
Not to worry, I'll see can I get it to run opera instead, I have a feeling it's faster on my system

oscarBravo · 12-12-2003 2:00pm

I replaced mozilla-xremote-client with mozilla-firebird -remote and it works perfectly here.

slartibardfast · 12-12-2003 2:34pm

thanks for the tip,

pickarooney · 13-12-2003 1:10pm

??? Still not working, I tried with mozilla-firebird and MozillaFirebird, but it fails to send.

maxheadroom · 13-12-2003 5:23pm

try /path/to/firebird/MozillaFirebird-bin -remote

pickarooney · 14-12-2003 2:37pm

That's the dancer Max, cheers!

Thunderbird 0.4 released

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