Re: [Evolution] preferred web browser

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> However, with Firebird, clicking on a link will only work if I don't
> already have an instance of Firebird already running. If I already have
> Firebird running, and click on a link in an email, I get the standard
> "Select User Profile" dialog, with my default profile selected and
> telling me that Firebird is already running.
>
> How can configure this so that it will work correctly?
> If this is more of a Firebird issue, please let me know, and I'll bother
> the folks over there.

The issue is, Mozilla (and Firebird) will prompt you with the Profile
Selector, if called a second time -- unless you use the remote
parameters like Paul and Brad already mentioned.

However, I posted scripts for this several times already. Basically you
first call {mozilla,firebird} with a new {tab,window} and if that fails
call it the normal way.

Here is a script to accomplish the very same as the already posted
scripts -- just shorter. ;)

#!/bin/sh
mozilla -remote 'openURL('$1', new-tab)' || mozilla $1 &


Brad, you want to use ping() for testing? Check this out, not even
complaints if the ping() "fails", which actually is just correct
reporting.

#!/bin/sh
mozilla -remote 'ping()' 2>> /dev/null && mozilla -remote 'openURL('$1', new-tab)' || mozilla $1 &


And here is a variant, is you happen to not have firebird in your
path... ;)

#!/bin/sh
alias firebird='/usr/local/bin/MozillaFirebird/MozillaFirebird'
firebird -remote 'openURL('$1', new-tab)' || firebird $1 &


Have fun...

...guenther


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