DSL Tips and Tricks :: Gmail & Firefox
A quick trick to get Firefox to open Gmail in a new tab when you click an email address:
First copy and paste the following into beaver and save as /opt/gmailto.sh
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#!/bin/sh
firefox -remote "openURL(http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=`echo $1 | sed 's/mailto://'`,new-tab)"
Then open an xterm and type:
chmod 755 /opt/gmailto.sh
Then in Firefox, type about:config in the address bar and find the following line:
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
Double click it and enter /opt/gmailto.sh
And that's it, just be sure to add opt/gmailto.sh to /opt/.filetool.lst
josh
I would change
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http://mail.google.com
to
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https://mail.google.com
but I don't care to transmit my passwords and cookies in plain text.
http://lucky13linux.wordpress.com/2007....ing-101
edit: or just this link (from the above on)e for a description of how easy it is to capture cookies on a network...
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33207/108/
I also had a second entry related to this.
http://lucky13linux.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/gmail-security-tips/
Why use http at all when sylpheed is excellent for gmail with either POP or IMAP, and using gmail via POP and IMAP requires connecting via SSL?
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