Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:54:01 -0400 From: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> To: "Andrey V. Semyonov" <wilfre@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite Message-ID: <4419D069.4070901@greenmeadow.ca> In-Reply-To: <44194C66.6060002@mail.ru> References: <4417AEF3.1010909@mail.ru> <4417BBC9.4070505@greenmeadow.ca> <4417D738.2060202@mail.ru> <4417DD5E.5040308@greenmeadow.ca> <44194C66.6060002@mail.ru>
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Andrey V. Semyonov wrote: > Duane Whitty wrote: >>> Strange things... When launched from xterm (or directly from my WM's >>> button) /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla starts mozilla binary normally. >>> >>> But after such a reconfiguration of TB when I try to open any link >>> in TB it prints "/usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla: Cannot find mozilla binary >>> executable. Exiting." into terminal from X is launched. >>> _______________________________________________ >> I am not sure why it is doing that. Please, do not take offense but >> have you checked >> to make sure you did not make any typographical mistakes. >> Another point to consider is that /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla is probably >> not the actual mozilla >> binary but rather a shell script to start the browser. Maybe you can >> find out what the actual >> binary is called. It is probably similar to mozilla-bin, moz-bin, >> etc. Actually it will be mentioned >> in the script but beware though that calling it directly may not work. > Yes, that's a script. And a strange bug was actually in it. I've > commented out some checks in it and now it works fine. So, thanks a > lot for help. > >> (Aside: I thought the mozilla-suite built in email program was >> essentially thunderbird? >> I hope I was correct when I assumed you were using mozilla and not >> firefox?) > > No, Mozilla Suit's mail programm is named 'mozilla-mail'. It's heir by > some shared code is Thunderbird (that's already explained yesterday). > Thunderbird's feature of RSS-reading is the most necessary feature > that caused me to use it (mozilla-mail can't read RSS-feeds). But as I > understand, Thunderbird is mostly compat-ed to Firefox and some kind > of moved away from Mozilla Suite project. That's why we have to do > tricks to make these same-family projects do well together now. > _______________________________________________ > Thanks for the follow up and for the clarification regarding Mozilla-mail and Thunderbird. --Duane
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