Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

[Chandan Haldar]

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