Firefox Notes: (12 Dec 05)

    The change-over from Netscape to Firefox/Thunderbird is not a totally clean one. I have had some problems, course it is like a lot of the other software that I am using lately... in developement. Part of the reasons for the "difficulties" is/was changes in locations.
Note:  Now notice the date. Some of these comments only apply to that time and some are still valid. Please understand that, I/we are working with multiple systems and sometimes we get confused as to which one is which, and did I/we do that already -or- was it on the other system.?.? This latest comment was brought out via reading my e-mail. As noted in my Starting Over WebPage I had to re-load a lot of stuff after my BIG Crash. One of the items was/is Plugins for Firefox. I couldn't view an mpv video which led to investigation, which led to this note, which led to more things that weren't installed which led to ... I think you get the idea. That's why I/we never seem to get anything done sometimes.

    One of the items of concern is Flash. I placed a neat Flash Graphic on my front page that has some clickable points in it to get to other pages. Unfortunately, this does not work in the latest installment of Firefox. Not sure who the cluprit is but I will investigate and place the results here. ... ...

    Later: Ok. I found the problem. The following message appeared at the top of my Firefox window:
    "Firefox prevented this site from opening a popup window."
Hmmmmmm... looks like the little helpers have gone to far again. Blocking windows from my own site! Guess I'll have to give myself permission to bring up my other windows. In fact, there is a preferences button at the end of the message. First item in the preferences list is:
   "Allow popups for www.trcompu.com"
Naturally I am going to allow my site.!.
   "Also on dusty-tr.trcomputing - my own PC!!" Hmmmmm....

Adobe Acrobat:

    /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin must be added to the PATH var in order to use the Adobe Acrobat Reader while using Netscape 7.2 and Firefox 1.5 in SuSE Linux 10.1 alpha-3.

    

Thunderbird Notes:

    The last implementaion of this mail code didn't let me setup individual mailboxes in my email account. It didn't properly copy over my Netscape account and when I tried to create the separte accounts, it didn't work. So I dumped it. Now with this new version it copied over my Netscape settings and so far looks to be ok.

    All of a sudden I can not click on a link inside Thunderbird and get it to call up Firefox to display the link. This is with the latest installation. Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.5. Could be but I certainly hope not, that it is cause I don't place them in /usr/bin. I put them in /opt/firefox and /opt/thunderbird.They won't talk to each other.

    Allllrighty... All you have to do is know what you are doing. Which I don't most of the time. Found this little gem on the net:
In your Thunderbird profile there is a file called prefs.js add these lines:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");

Now then, where is the profile??? In SuSE Linux it can be found in your "home dir" under the hidden directory called ".thunderbird". In this dir is the pref.js file. You will possibly have to change the path to firefox ... or not.
The important part of the above blurb came from Frank in a conversation at: MEPISlovers Forums

    

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