[plug] gnome / evolution web links

[indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU]

It's probably not this, but on an older version of Mozilla
I found only openURL() worked properly,
somehow openurl() didn't go.

Was a while ago tho, I don't use Moz regularly these days.

Indy




On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:08:52PM +0800, Luke Dudney wrote:
> I've got a bit of a strange problem on a RH9 desktop system. I want each
> application to behave in a way such that if I click on a web link within
> the app, it opens that page in a new tab in the running instance of
> Mozilla Firebird. To this end I've configured my redhat "Preferred
> Application" as a custom web browser with this command:
> 
> /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/MozillaFirebird -remote "openurl(%s, new-tab)"
> 
> When I click on a link in Evolution it does indeed open a new tab
> however it loads http://www.gnu.org/ instead of the clicked URL! GNU is
> not set as my default homepage or anything like that. If I click on a
> link in GAIM it comes up with the Firebird "profile currently in use,
> select another one" dialog. Anyone have any clues as to what I'm doing
> wrong?
> 
> $ rpm -qv evolution gnome-desktop htmlview gaim
> evolution-1.4.3-5 (from rawhide)
> gnome-desktop-2.2.0.1-4
> htmlview-2.0.0-10
> gaim-0.59.8-0
> 
> Firebird is 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla
> Firebird/0.6.1
> 
> Cheers
> Luke
> 

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Indranath Neogy
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