question about firefox and thunderbird [SOLVED]

nein · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Spain

Hi,

I was thinking of emerging firefox and thunderbird 1.0 and getting rid of mozilla as it seems the way to go. Can I have the three programs installed at the same time ? I assume it is no problem, but, Will firefox and thunderbird use the existing .mozilla directory or will they create something like .firefox and .thunderbird by "importing" the revelevant information in .mozilla ?

Any issues I should consider ? Thanks in advance.

deflin39 · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:52 am Post subject:

both these programs will ask you if you'd like to import your settings, and mozilla should be an option too. Backup your mozilla directory just to be safe though.

deflin39
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Darkael · Veteran Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 1321 Location: France

nein · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Spain

Someone who has both thunderbird and firefox told me that he has a .thunderbird directory and a .mozilla directory (he previously had mozilla). He told me he thinks that firefox also uses .mozilla.
The previous post seems to state firefox uses a .firefox directory ? Could someone cofirm what directory is used by each program ?

Thanks

Darkael · Veteran Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 1321 Location: France

shash · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 220 Location: India

Don't worry - they don't mess with each other's settings. I've got them both and they're both working fine.

nein · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Spain

Thanks for yor help. I will emerge thunderbird and firefox tonight and test them tomorrow.

nein · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Spain

Thanks for you help. It works fine

Thunderbird uses .thunderbird and firefox .mozilla/firefox. Not very consistent but....

I just have one more question: how do I make thunderbird open URL links in firefox ?

nein · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Spain

Found the answer myself. Add these lines in prefs.js in the .thunderbrd directory

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

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20630

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