[OT] Thunderbird opens urls in new window, not new tab

[Mel Wilson]

Byron Sonne wrote:
> When I click on a link in Thunderbird, it opens it in a whole new
> firefox window. Instead I want it to open it as a new tab inside the
> already running firefox instance. I thought that was the default behaviour,

I forget where I found this.  I set the Config Editor entry named 
network.protocol-handler.app.http to a string giving the path to call 
up a script which reads

#--------------------------------------


#!/bin/sh

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/local/firefox"

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

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


#--------------------------------------

and that does the trick.

	Mel.



> 
> I've check the faqs and docs and couldn't find an answer to this
> question. Also poked around in about:config but didn't see anything
> amiss. Also checked my preferences for both Thunderbird and Firefox, no
> luck. Sifted through the various .js files too.
> 
> It's probably very simple, some handler somewhere is doing something
> like openURL(URL,new-window) instead of openURL(URL,new-tab) but I dunno
> where to play with that.
> 
> Help appreciated!
> 
> Cheers,
> B
> 
> p.s. Lennart loves software raid and wants to make out with it! ;)
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