Howto: Make Firefox handle aim links with gaim

[lynng]

I wanted Firefox to automatically pop up a gaim message window when I click on AIM links in webpages. I searched the forum & googled, and haven't found a step-by-step for newbs like me. So here goes:

1) In gaim, click Tools->Preferences->Plugins & click the check box next to "Remote Control" (You may need to restart gaim)

2) In Firefox, type about:config in the location bar. Then right click in the list, and select New->String. In the box that pops up, type network.protocol-handler.app.aim & click OK

3) In the second box that pops up, type gaim-remote uri %r

If anyone knows how to get the same functionality for Thunderbird, please post.

edit: Having become more familiar with the forums since this post, I realize it should probably be moved to the "Customization Tips & Tricks" forum instead. Sorry.

[panickedthumb]

Wow, you're my hero ;)

I didn't even think that this was possible.

[poofyhairguy]

bump for this awesome howto

[brentroos]

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[NaWer]

For thunderbird, see the extension aboutconfig (http://aboutconfig.mozdev.org/)
maybe it's the same trick

[lynng]

Well, I tried making an entry for
network.protocol-handler.app.ymsgr
with the same value, but I keep getting a "not a registered protocol" error. I don't know the syntax for linking to an msn account, so I haven't tried that.

[lynng]

Thanks, NaWer. Using this extension to make an entry for aim now has the links working in Thunderbird.

[five_rings]

I wanted Firefox to automatically pop up a gaim message window when I click on AIM links in webpages. I searched the forum & googled, and haven't found a step-by-step for newbs like me. So here goes:

1) In gaim, click Tools->Preferences->Plugins & click the check box next to "Remote Control" (You may need to restart gaim)

2) In Firefox, type about:config in the location bar. Then right click in the list, and select New->String. In the box that pops up, type network.protocol-handler.app.aim & click OK

3) In the second box that pops up, type gaim-remote uri %r

If anyone knows how to get the same functionality for Thunderbird, please post.

edit: Having become more familiar with the forums since this post, I realize it should probably be moved to the "Customization Tips & Tricks" forum instead. Sorry.

Thanks for all the work you did...

I went through all the above steps to configure my netscape and firefox... it didn't work, however. :-k Both browsers still don't recognize my yahoo link... IE does. Did they make any changes to the protocol/configuration since the message was posted?

Thanks in advance... Five Rings

[lynng]

Thanks for all the work you did...

I went through all the above steps to configure my netscape and firefox... it didn't work, however. :-k Both browsers still don't recognize my yahoo link... IE does. Did they make any changes to the protocol/configuration since the message was posted?

Thanks in advance... Five Rings

Well I only ever confirmed it to work with AIM, not Yahoo. I haven't tried it with Firefox 1.5, but I'll try later & see if I can get it to work.

[dkbg]

Hmm, I've gotten it to work using Firefox 2 by adding another about:config option, namely a boolean option of "network.protocol-handler.external.aim" set to true. The problem is that it will only work with aim: links that include a screen name (i.e. aim:goim?screenname=foo&message=bar) which makes it pretty much useless. It isn't really a useful feature for me anyway, I was just messing around.