SillyDog701

[helpless marty]

in firefox i can click "tools" and the drop down menu will take me to my default email
program [thunderbird] or i can click the "mail" icon with the same result.
is there a way to do this in reverse? i.e.- to place an icon or drop down in thunderbird
that will take me to firefox? what about a search engine window? i get stuff emailed
to me that i go to snopes to check. having that window in thunderbird would be
useful!
this is not a crucial issue to me by any means as i have a hotkey that will bring up
firefox for me in tbird without going back to my desktop but i was just wondering...

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[Fulvio]

The developers of the programs do not think much of these shortcuts. In fact, the very reasonable shortcut from browser to mail will be dropped with Firefox2.0. I am using the beta2 and it has no mail shortcut. As for your requests, Firefox is like Internet Explorer, and Thunderbird is like Outlook Express. I don't think that OE has a shortcut to IE.
In any event, you must have both Firefox and Thunderbird as default, for any opening.
No matter what you do you are bringing the programs up separately, and, not like you said at the end. As for the search engine, they are in a browser, so you will not get all in one Thunderbird and Search. That's why some people still swear by a Suite, formerly Netscape or Mozilla, and now, Seamonkey, where everything is interrelated.
You may want to try the Search With extention in TB1.5.x. I installed it, but did not test. It works with Context (right click) menu, and, since Google Websearch is one choice, I would expect that it would open the default browser.

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