try opening a new tab/window, then clicking the link.

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I have fixed my problem -
chmod +x load_links.sh

that gets me every time!
:P:P:P:P:P

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I am having similar problems to all of you, except that thunderbird was opening links in epiphany(galeon), kopete opened them in mozilla, now in firefox, but it loads the address to /home/me/tmp first then loads the webpage into firefox, and when i added the line to pref.js it now opens nowhere.... but all the locations of filenames are correct!! This is my script:


#!/bin/sh

export FIREFOX_HOME="/usr/share/firefox"

url="$1"
if [ "x$url" = "x" ]; then
url="about:blank"
fi

if $FIREFOX_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client openURL\("$url"\); then
exit 0
fi
exec $FIREFOX_HOME/firefox "$url"


and this is what i added to prefs.js:


user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/share/thunderbird/load_links.sh");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/share/thunderbird/load_links.sh");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/share/thunderbird/load_links.sh");


anyone got any ideas why it won't work?

I'm one of the contributors over at the LQ's wiki. This seems like a common problem. However, I can't seem to follow along with what y'all are doing. (I'm probably just wearing my stupid hat.) When you figure out what the problem is, could someone sum it all up? I'll go ahead and put it in the wiki. (Or if one of you is a contributor, you can do it also.) Also, it might help wiki-wise if you explicitly put the sum-up post in the public domain, or at least license it under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

the soultion to the problem was located on another website, the address is:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thun...linuxurls.html

Basically what you're doing is:

Making a shell script that opens links from thunderbird, into firefox, as there is no method of setting a default browser for all linux apps, nor is there a way to set the default browser from thunderbird. You then add a line (or more) to the prefs.js file ($home/.thunderbird/xxxxx/default/prefs.js) that tells thunderbird to target any HTTP (HTTPS, FTP) link to the shell script, which in turn sends them to firefox.

Is that the kind of answer you wanted? Or did you want the exact method explained on the link above?

Think that'll work, provided I can work out the copyright angle.

any way I can modify this to have it open a new tab?

Thanks,
Nathan