[NTLUG:Discuss] Thunderbird stopped talking to Firefox?!?

Steve Baker steve at sjbaker.org
Fri Aug 7 21:14:13 CDT 2009


david wrote:
> Steve Baker wrote:
>> I already did that - my FireFox is at /usr/bin/firefox (which I can
>> verify by typing that at the command line and seeing firefox come up
>> OK)...still no joy.  I even tried typing:
>>
>>    /usr/bin/firefox http://www.google.com
>>
>> ...and that brought up another FF tab with Google in it in an existing
>> FF session.
>>
>> It's weird because this was working for a fair amount of time before it
>> failed - and I'm pretty sure that updating FireFox is what triggered
>> that...although I only kinda gradually became aware of it - so that's
>> not 100% for sure.
>>
>>
>>   -- Steve
>>
>>
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> One more suggestion. In KDE Control Center/Component Chooser/Web Browser
> you have "Open http and https URL's" - In the following browser:
> What is in the box? Mine is firefox %s. I have read a ton of posts about 
> this, but none seem
> to have a definitive answer.

Mine says '/usr/bin/firefox' - but no '%s'.  I added that but it didn't
help.  :-(

  --Steve




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