[svlug] Re: Re: Firefox 0.9

[Mital Patel]

George Georgalis wrote:

>Aaaw heck, that wasn't so hard!
>
>http://us.f525.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=george@galis.org
>(choose a domain from your own browser, it'll probably be closer)
>
>but it doesn't work through session timeouts, in that case click again
>when you login.
>
>that was the easy part, next step, groak the info from a wrapper to
>invoke netscape remote... I don't see a firefox option to set the
>'mailto' program :-\
>
>// George
>
>
>On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:00:49AM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
>  
>
>>maybe use "firefox remote" -- more info may be had for "mozilla remote"
>>(or netscape)
>>
>>My guess is you could create a wrapper program which is set in your
>>browser preferences, then on mailto click, the wrapper grokes the
>>parameters an invokes a browser window with a functional yahoo cgi (try
>>copying a link from within yahoo). It might be easier to submit a form
>>as if it was from a yahoo page, but I don't know if you can pass the To
>>address that way (err, almost the same thing).
>>
>>hope you've got some time on your hands. :)
>>
>>// George
>>
>>
>>On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:54:55PM -0700, Anthony Ettinger wrote:
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>>
>>>I want to use yahoo as my email client.
>>>
>>>
>>>--- George Georgalis <george at galis.org> wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>you prob want thunderbird, the email client vs
>>>>firefox the browser
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/mozilla-thunderbird/
>>>      
>>>
>>>>http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
>>>>
>>>>// George
>>>>
>>>>On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:14:28PM -0700, Anthony
>>>>Ettinger wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>Has anyone been able to figure out how to get yahoo
>>>>>email to open up when you click mailto: links?
>>>>>
>>>>>--- Scott Hess <Scott.Hess at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:29:23 -0700, Florin Andrei
>>>>>><florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>For those of you using Firefox - is 0.9 stable
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>enough for "serious" use?
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>(work-related stuff, etc.)
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>I've been using Firefox since 0.7 (I think,
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>anyhow,
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>>it was "firebird"
>>>>>>or somesuch at the time, almost a year ago). 
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>It's
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>>been quite stable
>>>>>>for me.  My main complaint is that I haven't
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>found
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>>the right plug-in
>>>>>>to give me all of the tab-manipulation features I
>>>>>>like from Galeon 1.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-scott
>>>>>>
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>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>659139
>>>>        
>>>>
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>>>>-- 
>>>>George Georgalis, Architect and administrator, Linux
>>>>services. IXOYE
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>>>
>>-- 
>>George Georgalis, Architect and administrator, Linux services. IXOYE
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Or you can use YahooPops! (http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/) and just 
use Thunderbird.