Thunderbird no longer viewing http URLs

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
| El Miércoles, 23 de Febrero de 2005 18:53, Joe Marcus Clarke escribió:
|
|>Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
|>| El Miércoles, 23 de Febrero de 2005 09:35, Jose M Rodriguez
|
| escribió:
|
|>|>El Miércoles, 23 de Febrero de 2005 09:16, Doug Barton escribió:
|>|>>Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
|>|>>>You need repocopy
|>|>>>files/patch-uriloader_exthandler_unix_nsGNOMERegistry.cpp from
|>|>>>mozilla and rebuild. (You may need also this for firefox, it's a
|>|>>>-core fix).
|>|>>>
|>|>>>After that, thunderbird must use gnome settings to open external
|>|>>>uris.
|>|>>>
|>|>>>I don't remenber the thunderbird case but, at last for firefox,
|>|>>>this makes 'registration as default browser' init dialog works
|>|>>
|>|>>I appreciate the response, but I don't use gnome, and don't want
|>|>> to have to add gnome bits that I don't need. I'm already a little
|>|>> cheesed off that I can't seem to opt out of gconf being
|>|>>"necessary."
|>|>>
|>|>>Doug
|>|>
|>|>Rigth now, the mozilla project uses gnome as a reference.  Also
|>|> here in FreeBSD.
|>|>
|>|>This doesn't add any special new depend to mozilla/firefox.  It
|>|>allready builds over gtk20.
|>|>
|>|>Also, at last for firefox, The apps have built-in the resources
|>|>needed to change the gnome-registry.  This is what is done in the
|>|>'registration as default browser'.
|>|>
|>|>The only aditional port you may need is sysutils/gconf-editor.
|>|> This may easy edit uri entries is you don't like the defaults.
|>|> You may launch gconf-editor from a xterm and edit
|>|> desktop/gnome/url-handlers as you like.
|>|>
|>|>Also, you may use mozilla, which have a built-in mail app and
|>|>external handlers disabled by default.
|>|
|>| I make a little mistake.  I build firefox/thunderbird with gnome
|>| vfs support enabled.  Maybe that, if you don't have gconf2 or
|>| libgnomevfs2 installed, external apps settings may work.
|>|
|>| I send a PR about a mozilla uri helper script (now closed).
|>|
|>| In any case, I'll ask gnome@ about:
|>| - merge the uri patch to firefox/thunderbird
|>| - take off the XFT knob
|>| - make gnomevfs enabled in the default firefox/thunderbird build.
|>|
|>| I honest think that this is the way to go, even for non-gnome
|>| users.
|>
|>I'm not so sure non-GNOME users will agree with you here.  I support
|>your first two ideas, but I think making gnomevfs2 a mandatory
|>dependency will piss off a lot of people.  Especially since you have
|>things like:
|>
|>user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "firefox");
|>user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "firefox");
|>
|>Joe
|>
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|
| The main problem is that, after the uri patch, if you have gconf2
| installed, the network.protocol-handler.app may don't work.

I think it will if you set network.protocol-handler.external.http to
false, and network.protocol-handler.expose.http to true.

|
| This is only used if mozilla apps can't read gnome registry, and I'm
| sure it doesn't work if you build with libgnomevf2 enabled.

I think it will.

|
| I'm not sure if the libgnomevfs2 depend is really need, but we allready
| have a knob for this. Maybe better add a knob for only enabled gconf2
| RUN_DEPENDS.

This was for SMB URIs as I recall.

|
| I'm not talking about take-off the knob, but on change it from 'default
| disable' to 'default enabled'.  People really needing it may build
| firefox without libgnomevfs support.
|
| The gconf based uri helper configuration is the only thing we can 'safe
| document' in a FAQ.

How is that?  What I listed above is "safe" to document.

|
| Also, the thunderbird->others case is more simple (http, https) that the
| firefox->others case (mailto, news, callto, ...)

Same thing as mailto above.

|
| Other point in the gconf2 thing is the auto registration.  You launch
| firefox and, if your gconf settings don't point to firefox for http and
| so, a dialog appear to make 'firefox your default browser', changing
| this to point at firefox.

What's your point?  The way Firefox works is to dynamically load the
libraries at run-time if present.  For non-GNOME users that don't want
any GNOME integration can build Firefox with out it, and with some
about:config hacking, get things to work.

I think all of this could probably be solved by coming up with some
clear FAQ documentation.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
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