I recently switched my work email and web browsing from the older Mozilla suite to Thunderbird and Firefox.  One of the few things that annoyed me was that clicking links in Thunderbird opens them in a new Firefox window, even though i've selected the option within Firefox to open them in a new tab in the same window. At home on Debian sarge this works correctly without modification, but for some reason the same settings don't work on my SuSE 9.3 machine at work.

I solved this by following the instructions in a recent Novell "Cool Solution" and replacing their script with this one:

#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/bin/firefox -remote "openurl($1)"


This causes links opened from Thunderbird to honour Firefox's preferences.