FAO Guy Chapman

[Pete White]

I bought the latest edition of PC gamer this month, which
has Mozilla Firefox 0.8 on the DVD.

Thought I'd download the mail client.

WOW.

The old IE/OE shortcut is gonna get binned.

Wonderful.

[Danny Colyer]

Pete White wrote:
> I bought the latest edition of PC gamer this month, which
> has Mozilla Firefox 0.8 on the DVD.
>
> Thought I'd download the mail client.
>
> WOW.

I've been using Thunderbird for the last 5 weeks. It's
great. It's worth keeping an eye on alt.fan.mozilla for tips
and advice on known bugs.

I installed it on DW's PC last weekend. Her excitement at
replying to a message and seeing the .sig automatically
placed below the quoted message was quite something to
behold :-)

--
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reply address)
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[Tumbleweed]

"Danny Colyer" <danny@speedy5.freeserve.giggle> wrote in message
news:c98fbh$ogu$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Pete White wrote:
> > I bought the latest edition of PC gamer this month,
> > which has Mozilla Firefox 0.8 on the DVD.
> >
> > Thought I'd download the mail client.
> >
> > WOW.
>
> I've been using Thunderbird for the last 5 weeks. It's
> great. It's worth keeping an eye on alt.fan.mozilla for
> tips and advice on known bugs.
>
> I installed it on DW's PC last weekend. Her excitement at
> replying to a message and seeing the .sig automatically
> placed below the quoted message was quite something to
> behold :-)
>

I just gave up with it on Linux, cant get it to launch
Firefox (or any other browser) from a link within an email.
Apparently there is a new version coming out soon which
makes this easier (some people can get it to work at the mo
but not me)

--
Tumbleweed

Remove my socks for email address

[Simon Brooke]

in message <40b7c4b3$0$2284$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk>, Tumbleweed
('tumbleweednews@mysockshotmail.com') wrote:

> "Danny Colyer" <danny@speedy5.freeserve.giggle> wrote in
> message news:c98fbh$ogu$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> Pete White wrote:
>> > I bought the latest edition of PC gamer this month,
>> > which has Mozilla Firefox 0.8 on the DVD.
>> >
>> > Thought I'd download the mail client.
>> >
>> > WOW.
>>
>> I've been using Thunderbird for the last 5 weeks. It's
>> great. It's worth keeping an eye on alt.fan.mozilla for
>> tips and advice on known bugs.
>>
>> I installed it on DW's PC last weekend. Her excitement at
>> replying to a message and seeing the .sig automatically
>> placed below the quoted message was quite something to
>> behold :-)
>
> I just gave up with it on Linux, cant get it to launch
> Firefox (or any other browser) from a link within an
> email. Apparently there is a new version coming out soon
> which makes this easier (some people can get it to work at
> the mo but not me)

What's the problem? What email client are you using?
(although why anyone would want to run Mozilla when they
could run Konqueror defeats
me).

--
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-- George Lund

[Anonymous Cowar]

On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:05:03 +0000, Simon Brooke wrote:

> in message <40b7c4b3$0$2284$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk>,
> Tumbleweed ('tumbleweednews@mysockshotmail.com') wrote:
>
>> "Danny Colyer" <danny@speedy5.freeserve.giggle> wrote in
>> message news:c98fbh$ogu$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
>>> Pete White wrote:
>>> > I bought the latest edition of PC gamer this month,
>>> > which has Mozilla Firefox 0.8 on the DVD.
>>> >
>>> > Thought I'd download the mail client.
>>> >
>>> > WOW.
>>>
>>> I've been using Thunderbird for the last 5 weeks. It's
>>> great. It's worth keeping an eye on alt.fan.mozilla for
>>> tips and advice on known bugs.
>>>
>>> I installed it on DW's PC last weekend. Her excitement
>>> at replying to a message and seeing the .sig
>>> automatically placed below the quoted message was quite
>>> something to behold :-)
>>
>> I just gave up with it on Linux, cant get it to launch
>> Firefox (or any other browser) from a link within an
>> email. Apparently there is a new version coming out soon
>> which makes this easier (some people can get it to work
>> at the mo but not me)

Normally I think you control it by setting the
$BROWSER variable, whatever version of whichever email
client you use.

Try adding:

export BROWSER=firefox

to your .bashrc file

> What's the problem? What email client are you using?
> (although why anyone would want to run Mozilla when they
> could run Konqueror defeats
> me).

Konqueror is great, but the powers that control my internet
connection just started to do something that makes it only
work intermittently. I haven't the foggiest what it is or
how to investigate the problem, but Mozilla, Galeon &
Netscape seem untouched.

Thank goodness for the Linux way - if one program doesn't
work, the five others that do nearly the same thing slightly
differently probably will.

AC

[Tumbleweed]

"Simon Brooke" <simon@jasmine.org.uk> wrote in message
news:cm2mo1-t2d.ln1@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk...
> in message <40b7c4b3$0$2284$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk>,
> Tumbleweed ('tumbleweednews@mysockshotmail.com') wrote:
>
> > "Danny Colyer" <danny@speedy5.freeserve.giggle> wrote in
> > message news:c98fbh$ogu$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> >> Pete White wrote:
> >> > I bought the latest edition of PC gamer this month,
> >> > which has Mozilla Firefox 0.8 on the DVD.
> >> >
> >> > Thought I'd download the mail client.
> >> >
> >> > WOW.
> >>
> >> I've been using Thunderbird for the last 5 weeks. It's
> >> great. It's worth keeping an eye on alt.fan.mozilla for
> >> tips and advice on known bugs.
> >>
> >> I installed it on DW's PC last weekend. Her excitement
> >> at replying to a message and seeing the .sig
> >> automatically placed below the quoted message was quite
> >> something to behold :-)
> >
> > I just gave up with it on Linux, cant get it to launch
> > Firefox (or any other browser) from a link within an
> > email. Apparently there is a new version coming out soon
> > which makes this easier (some people can get it to work
> > at the mo but not me)
>
> What's the problem? What email client are you using?
> (although why anyone would want to run Mozilla when they
> could run Konqueror defeats
> me).
>

The problem is that when I click on a link, nothing happens.
The email client is Thunderbird, as per the message! I'll
try the fix in the next message.

--
Tumbleweed

Remove my socks for email address