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Re: gnome & firefox & thunderbird



On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 23:26 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
> I keep seeing messages about Firefox and Thunderbird but it's never 
> about this and I can't find any info about how to control this in Gnome:
> 
> I want to click on a link in Thunderbird emails, and see the Firefox 
> browser pop up a new browser window in the foreground.
> 
> Currently the link opens in an existing Firefox window AND in the 
> background, so I have to go looking for it and then work out whether I 
> want to go back to the page the browser window showed before.
> 
> Could be simple, but could be impossible - anybody know?

The GNOME Way is to run Preferences->"Preferred Applications",
and choose FF as your Default Web Browser.  Don't know, though,
if T-bird does things The GNOME Way.

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