[xubuntu-users] Link between Firefox and Thunderbird.

[Gérald Jean]

Hello Elfy,

thanks, works great!!!

Surprising though that the Mozilla team came out with something like that???

Cheers,

Gérald

Le 2015-02-27 12:41, Elfy a écrit :
> On 27/02/15 15:42, Gérald Jean wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> running Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, 64-bit on AMD.
>>
>> This morning the system did a routine upgrade, after which it asks to
>> reboot, I clicked yes, it did and from then on, when I click on a link
>> in a Thunderbird email, it does open new instances of Firefox every
>> time and it does open it on the Welcome page, NOT the page the link is
>> supposed to lead to??
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gérald
>>
>>
> That is likely to be this bug
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425972
>
> There is an xfce bug as well -
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11601
>
> If you're happy to do so you can edit the firefox.desktop file as root
>
> /usr/share/xfce4/helpers/firefox.desktop
>
> The very bottom 2 lines
>
> X-XFCE-Commands=%B -remote "openURL(about:blank,new-window)";%B;
> X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=%B -remote "openURL(%s)";%B "%s";
>
> need to be replaced with
>
> X-XFCE-Commands=%B;
> X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=%B "%s";
>
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