[sylpheed:26693] Re: Sylpheed 2.2.0beta1 released

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:07:13 +0100
bojster <bojster <at> op.pl> wrote:

> > Since my browser (Mac OS X's Safari) doesn't recognize command-line
> > calls, my "browser" has to be set to "open", a CLI program that
> > opens URLs in whatever the system default program is for that
> > protocol. Something like www.foo.com doesn't work when clicked
> > because "open" doesn't know if that is an HTTP URL, an FTP URL,
> > etc. It would be nice if there were a way to click URLs like
> > www.foo.com and have them passed to the browser.
> 
> I also checked Konqueror, works ok. Firefox indeed seems to have a
> problem. But while in Linux it's trivial to write a wrapper script and
> direct URLs from Sylpheed to it, in OS X it might be somewhat
> problematic. Still it doesn't mean non-http:// URLs should be
> considered invalid, but some kind of "prepend http:// by default if
> protocol not specified" patch might solve the problem. Also, I think
> it should be possible to turn it on/off in options, just in case.

I tried setting SeaMonkey as my browser, since it can handle
command-line calls (path-to/seamonkey-bin '%s'). It worked with
"www.yahoo.com", but every time I clicked another URL, a separate
instance of SeaMonkey tried to start up, failing because "profile
already in use." So, I'm back to using "open".

Emily

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