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Add Handlers on Firefox and Thunderbird

Tuesday Oct 23, 2007

It's quite annoying when you click on a link on Thunderbird but no browser (Mozilla or Firefox) is launched, and vice versa. It's actually quite simple to fix this by adding handlers on Firefox or Thunderbird.

go to 'about:config' editor
for Firefox, just type 'about:config' on address bar
for Thunderbird, click on 'Edit/Preferences' menu, a dialog pops up
then click on 'Config Editor' button on 'Advanced/General' tab
right click on any existing entry, click 'New/String' menu
for Firefox, enter 'network.protocol-handler.app.mailto' on first dialog,
then '/usr/bin/thunderbird %s' on second dialog (*).
for Thunderbird, enter 'network.protocol-handler.app.http' on first dialog,
then '/usr/bin/firefox -new-tab "%s"'.
repeat step 2 for Thunderbird to add other handlers
network.protocol-handler.app.https
network.protocol-handler.app.ftp

That's it!

(*) Note that the actual path name for firefox and thunderbird may vary on your environment.
(*) Note #2: this works on all versions of Firefox, but only version 1.5 or later for Thunderbird.

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Posted at 05:23PM Oct 23, 2007 by Simford Dong in General
Tags: mozilla

Enable Network Services on Nevada

Thursday Oct 18, 2007

Some network services (sendmail, ftpd, etc) are disabled or restricted to local only on a newly installed Nevada box. We need to modify or enable them through SMF(5).

Enable sendmail
# svccfg -s svc:/network/smtp:sendmail setprop config/local_only=false
# svcadm restart svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
Enable ftpd
# inetadm -e svc:/network/ftp:default
Enable nfs.server (this is actually enabled by default, but can be disabled by 'netservices limited')
#### list all nfs services
# svcs -p |grep nfs

# svcadm disable svc:/network/nfs/server:default
# svcadm enable svc:/network/nfs/server:default
#

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