Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:59:58 +0530 From: Chandan Haldar <chandanh@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite Message-ID: <441824E6.5000100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44181E53.2030804@gmail.com> References: <4417AEF3.1010909@mail.ru> <4417BBC9.4070505@greenmeadow.ca> <4417D738.2060202@mail.ru> <4417DD5E.5040308@greenmeadow.ca> <441812AE.3060209@dial.pipex.com> <44181E53.2030804@gmail.com>
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By the way, just in case someone is interested, I also could set up to use the same mail folders in thunderbird and the same bookmarks in firefox irrespective of whether I use these programs under FreeBSD or Windoze. Setting a few links in my home dir in FreeBSD is all that it takes with my Windows partitions mounted as msdosfs. I find this a VERY useful thing since my system is primarily a desktop and I sometimes cannot avoid running Windows, but still want to see the same bookmarks and mail folders. Can post more details if anyone needs it. Chandan Chandan Haldar wrote: > I routinely use firefox 1.0.7 and thunderbird 1.0.6 on FreeBSD > 6.0 Release (both built from the ports in the ISO images). They > work quite nicely together. Clicking URLs in mails in thunderbird > brings up the page in firefox in a new tab. Clicking mailto: links > in a webpage in firefox opens a mail composer window in thunderbird. > If the other program isn't running already, it's started automatically. > > I didn't do anything special to tell firefox and thunderbird about > each other. As far as I could see during the build process, they > have a whole lot of common code of the mozilla platform, but these > are bundled independently in each source tarball and built separately > by each one with no shared binaries anywhere during the build process. > > The installations seem to be located differently for firefox and for > thunderbird in the following directories respectively: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/thunderbird/lib/thunderbird-1.0.6/ > and > /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/ > > I could be wrong, but this suggests to me that I can probably > install thunderbird 1.5 without clobbering my thunderbird 1.0.6 > installation, while installing firefox 1.5 will probably clobber > my firefox 1.0.7 installation. In any case my 1.5 builds fail. > > Chandan
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