[Discussion] FireFox & Thunderbird

[Carl Kappen]

Hi Chuck,

Thanks again, I'll set my machine up as described below when I get some 
more time and let you know how I do.   I'm happy now the way FireFox & 
Thunderbird are working together and may take a few weeks before I give 
it a try.

Chuck McKinnis wrote:
> Carl Kappen wrote:
>   
>> Chuck,
>>
>> I was wondering what the "!L" meant.  Paul must have set it up that way 
>> since Thunderbird, FireFox, and Seamonkey all have the "!L" in the name. 
>> I have Thunderbird and FireFox running, and now that I can click on 
>> links and open the browser, it is doing everything fine.  The only other 
>> thing I didn't like about Thunderbird and FireFox is the menu items were 
>> in different places and were not named the same.  That took me a lot 
>> longer to set up, but I found them eventually.
>>     
>
> I did not realize that Paul had already taken care of the co-existence 
> problem.  All you need to do with the integration tool is get OS2.INI 
> updated with the default browser and email client.
>
>   
>> If I do switch can I set them up to have all the e-mail and bookmarks in 
>> one place and shared?  Now I have my old machine with e-mail up to 
>> 4/20/07 the new machine from 4/20/2007 on.   I wouldn't want to have the 
>> e-mail in three places.  It would be nice to transfer all the saved 
>> e-mail from the old machine (Mozilla), to the new one, if they would be 
>> compatible, and shared with both Thunderbird and Seamonkey.
>>     
>
> I don't think you can share the bookmarks because they are stored in the 
> individual profile directories for each application.  However, I use a 
> very handy add on called Foxmarks to keep bookmarks in synch across all 
> of my machines, eCS, Windows, and Linux.
>
> Mail is a different story.
>
> I found that the best way to handle mail was to create a separate Mail 
> directory and create a named sub-directory for the email account 
> (E:\Mail\Chuck, for example).  I then edit the mail preferences to point 
> the Server setting to that directory.  I then added a dummy user account 
> for my Thinkpad and pointed it to the mail directory on the Thinkpad 
> (connected via Peer).  I can then connect to my Thinkpad, open the dummy 
> account, and move the messages I got on the road to my home machine. 
> The same technique can be used to point to other Thunderbird and/or 
> Seamonkey mail repositories.
>
> Address books were the other problem.  I have a couple of address book 
> synchronization add ons installed.  The SynchMab add on looks good, but 
> I have had problems in getting it to work like I think it should.  The 
> Addressbooks Sychronizer add on seems to work better for me.  I just 
> export and import the various address books between machine.
>
>   
>> Chuck McKinnis wrote:
>>     
>>> Carl Kappen wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi Carl G.
>>>>
>>>> I got this machine from Paul Curits and looking on the HDD I see 
>>>> SeaMonkey is already installed.  I'll give  it a click and see how I 
>>>> like it.
>>>>
>>>> Carl Gehr wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi, Carl!
>>>>>
>>>>> My suggestion:  Scrap BOTH FF and TB and get SeaMonkey which is the
>>>>> integrated suite like the old Mozilla.
>>>>>
>>>>> Get the package:
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> 	seamonkey-1.1.1+.en-US.os2.enh.exe
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> from 
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183811&package_id=215808
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Note:  This is an enhanced build from Peter Weilbacher.  I've been
>>>>> using his builds very successfully on several systems.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have your profiles and folders in a separate directory already,
>>>>> SM should use them just fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Carl G.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2007 16:41:45 -0400, Carl Kappen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I recently got a new computer with eCS installed.  I had been using 
>>>>>> Mozilla with my old system.  The new one came loaded with FireFox and 
>>>>>> Thunderbird.   One thing I miss is being able to click on a link in an 
>>>>>> e-mail and going directly to the web page.  I have been using copy and 
>>>>>> paste to go to the web site.   Is there a setting in Thunderbird to 
>>>>>> click on a link and have FireFox go there if it is running, or open 
>>>>>> FireFox and go there if it isn't running?
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>> If you want to use Seamonkey while running Firefox and/or Thunderbird, 
>>> you can use my little tool to set it up as the default browser and 
>>> create a SEAMONKEY!L.EXE to prevent DLL conflicts.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>
>
>   

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Carl Kappen

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