Recently, I noticed that I had a tab opening in Firefox with the URL https://r.twimg.com/jot in a new tab. Apparently, when visiting RSS feeds in Thunderbird, this tracker is opened in another tab, which is quite annoying.
I've read a lot of solutions to this issue, most of them being changes in the settings of either Thunderbird or Firefox. Probably the best solution was to deny ||r.twimg.com/jot through ad block plus.
My solution was a quick hack: I fixed it by adding a patch to /usr/bin/firefox if [ "`echo $@|grep r.twimg.com/jot`" != "" ]; then echo jot stopped | logger exit 0 fi if [ "`echo $@|grep twitter.com/i/jot`" != "" ]; then echo jot stopped | logger exit 0 fi
To edit the Thunderbird time format on Linux, edit /usr/bin/thunderbird. Just before the line exec $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" add one more line: export LC_TIME=nl_NL (or any other language of your choice)
There are probably other/easier ways to do this, but since I want this to only affect thunderbird, I prefer this method.
Yay, I got myself a Samsung Galaxy SII. Great phone running Android!
There's just one thing that annoys the shit out of me: When I create a new agenda item in my google agenda, it shows up in my thunderbird as "tentative". These items will have a lower opacity, which makes the agenda harder to read.
I've google'd around, and found a lot of complaints about this problem, but there's no solution to make appointments confirmed right away. And I'm definitely not opening all items in thunderbird to confirm them by hand.
There's a simple solution to this problem: I made Thunderbird render the agenda differently. Using the file userChrome.css, I set opacity to 100%. (If you don't know what userChrome.css is, read this page at mozilla.org.) The actual CSS is: calendar-event-box[invitation-status="TENTATIVE"], calendar-editable-item[invitation-status="TENTATIVE"], calendar-month-day-box-item[invitation-status="TENTATIVE"], calendar-event-box[status="TENTATIVE"], calendar-editable-item[status="TENTATIVE"], calendar-month-day-box-item[status="TENTATIVE"] { opacity: 1 !important; }
Restart thunderbird and you're done.
This "solution" does not set any appointments to "confirmed". It just renders tentative appointments the same as confirmed items, so that you don't see the difference anymore.
Last week, I upgraded to Fedora 15 (codename: Lovelock). One of the new annoying "features" is that Google Chrome somehow got to be the default browser when I click a link from Firefox.
I Google'd around, and couldn't find how to fix it. So I decided to strace it. Apparently, Thunderbird launches gvfs-open to open a browser. Again I straced the command "gvfs-open https://www.geeklab.info", and found that it opens /usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list, which referred to google-chrome.desktop instead of mozilla-firefox.desktop. My file now contains:
Update: Since some crap keeps changing this file, i just made the file immutable. The command chattr +i /usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list prevents programs that would normally have permissions to edit the file to be blocked.