Was running Thunderbird on a thumb drive where Firefox is also located, but was not running. When I clicked on a link in an email in TB, it opened FF, but believe it was FF on the hard drive.
Is there a way to prevent this so that it would open FF on the thumb? (Scenario would be when on a public computer with FF and reading msgs in TB it would open the wrong program without my setup and bookmark the site.)
Presumably if FFP was always running along with TBP it would always use that running program?
And is there a method to ascertain which FF is running from the link, FFP or FF on the hard drive? And is there a way to have TBP always open FFP -- perhaps a batch file or ----
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The forums before posting, as stated before posting, and in the forum guidelines, as things like this have been requested, and your other two posts look like question that have been answered before as well. MIME Types and what the program they are associated with are usually stored in the host registry, so this really isn't possible. However, there are some program that allow you to associate file extension with programs on your drive. Search around the forums for them.
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Search was missing yesterday? Or I was blind from working too many hours, and that's why I first manually searched back 10 pages going back about a year and a half.
What you say is as I thought and have run out of time to research a program to install on the thumb that will run the proper program, so will take that up upon my return from this trip. Perhaps extension Launchy could take care of it by using the context menu on a link in an email.
Probably throttled. Drupal (the system the site runs on) automatically disables it when load on the server is high. If you can see the Search link at the top, and can search, then it's not throttled.
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Is there a way to prevent this so that it would open FF on the thumb?
Search, download, install and configure C.A.F.E. in your thumb...
Presumably if FFP was always running along with TBP it would always use that running program?
no, it will use the one set as "default" in the PC's registry.
And is there a method to ascertain which FF is running from the link, FFP or FF on the hard drive?
Yes, Ctrl+alt+del and check if PFF is running.
And is there a way to have TBP always open FFP
I think yes... in PTB options in the same options for Attachments
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