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#1 2004-05-05 19:11:26

dustismo
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firefox doesn't work w/ thunderbird in xfce4

I get a strange problem.  If I have thunderbird open and firefox is not, when I try to start firefox I get "Failed to send command." but if I start firefox before I start thunderbird, all is well. 

Once the problem starts it won't stop until I restart xfce4.  Anybody have any idea why this is happening?

-Dustin

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#2 2004-05-05 19:19:42

Dusty
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Re: firefox doesn't work w/ thunderbird in xfce4

I believe this bug has been reported, but it is a bug in thunderbird/firefox and is duplicable on window managers other than XFCE4. Are you using the latest versions? I was hoping it might be fixed in thunderbird 0.6. sad

Dusty

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#3 2004-05-05 20:01:28

dustismo
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Re: firefox doesn't work w/ thunderbird in xfce4

Thanks for the info..  Too bad.

my firefox and thundrebird are upto date.

-Dustin

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#4 2004-05-06 02:46:26

shen
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Re: firefox doesn't work w/ thunderbird in xfce4

that problem is fixed with the newer firefox code. I tried using the nightly build of firefox and the issue wasn't present. Hopefully there will be new source package released soon for firefox.

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#5 2004-05-06 06:42:28

morphus
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Registered: 2003-08-06
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Re: firefox doesn't work w/ thunderbird in xfce4

afaik it was a Problem in the way how arch compiled firefox...with any firefox version other than the arch one it worked... just use the search engine in the forum an you'll find a package using the firefox-binary, which works flawlessly.

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#6 2004-05-06 08:10:12

torindan
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Registered: 2004-01-13
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Re: firefox doesn't work w/ thunderbird in xfce4

It's not a "compiled" bug in thunderbird, neither in "firefox", the problem
is in the script "/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox" which is included in "mozilla-firefox" package.
Just make it look like "/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird" and everything will work fine.
With night builds you do not use that script, that's why you don't have problems.

It's a reported bug, so you do not need to report it again.

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#7 2004-05-06 17:26:54

soffcore
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Registered: 2004-04-27
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Re: firefox doesn't work w/ thunderbird in xfce4

One thing that I did was to launch both with the actual script of:

/opt/mozilla-firefox/bin/firefox

and

/opt/mozilla-thunderbird/bin/thunderbird

all is well smile (for me anywhoo)

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