Re: Solaris: Thunderbird and Firefox 1.5

Paul Gress wrote:
> Thomas Ronayne wrote:
> 
>> I've installed Firefox 1.5, Solaris 8, SPARC, works just fine.
>>
>> Thunderbird (1.02, Solaris 8, SPARC), however, can't open a link anymore:
>>
>>    Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new
>>    window, you must first exit the existing Firefox process, or restart
>>    your system.
>>
>> Uh, that doesn't seem right somehow -- Firefox opens a Thunderbird 
>> window but not the other direction.
>>
>> These are the packages from Mozilla.org.
>>
> I just had that same problem today.  Spent hours in thunderbirds 
> "prefs.js" file trying to add links that didn't work.
> 
> Ex:
> 
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", 
> "/Your/Location/FireFox-1.5/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", 
> "/Your/Location/FireFox-1.5/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", 
> "/Your/Location/FireFox/FireFox-1.5");
> 
>  It ended up being when you update Firefox and click to make it your 
> default browser, Gnome doesn't use the new default, so ThunderBird trys 
> starting the older version.  What fixed it for me was a simple reboot. I 
> probably could of just logged out and in again.
> 
> Paul

I have to reply to myself.  I spoke to soon.  It works when opening up 
Firefox.  It will not transfer a link to an opened Firefox.

Paul