Bug 45367 – Thunderbird startup doesn't check for running instances

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description EJ Finneran 2004-03-22 02:32:59 UTC]

When running /usr/bin/thunderbird, I wanted it to check for a running instance of Thunderbird and if once existed use mozilla-xremote-client to communicate and if not pass the url off to a new instance.

[Comment 1 EJ Finneran 2004-03-22 02:35:35 UTC]

Created attachment 27794 [details]
a new script that takes care of these issues

this is a rather simple script that if it is passed a url, it opens a new
composing window, otherwise it opens the standard Mail & Newsgroups window.

[Comment 2 Mike Auty (RETIRED) 2004-04-01 17:04:18 UTC]

Perhaps this should be integrated into the new mozilla-launcher package?

[Comment 3 Radoslaw Szkodzinski 2004-04-09 09:58:51 UTC]

Well, this doesn't quite work with multiple mailto's.
I'll attach a different script (based on mozilla-launcher-1.2).
It even works when set as network.protocol-handler.app.mailto in Firefox
(a CVS build from 2004-04-08)

[Comment 4 Radoslaw Szkodzinski 2004-04-09 10:00:54 UTC]

Created attachment 28959 [details]
Mozilla Thunderbird script revisited.

Here it is. Works fine here, has some modifications due to thunderbird
accepting mailto's only in remote call.

[Comment 5 Radoslaw Szkodzinski 2004-04-09 10:02:23 UTC]

Comment on attachment 28959 [details]
Mozilla Thunderbird script revisited.

The bugzilla's mime-type autodetection routines failed badly. Fixed.

[Comment 6 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-05-04 15:07:54 UTC]

Fixed in thunderbird-0.6-r1 and mozilla-launcher-1.6