Hopefully this is useful to someone. To make Mozilla or Firefox pass AIM URIs to Gaim,do this:
As root,create the file /usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri with the following contents…
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/gaim-remote uri $1
Then make the file executable by running…
chmod 755 /usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri
Close Mozilla/Firefox.
Open your prefs.js file (~/.firefox/default/XXXXXXXX.slt/prefs.js) and enter the follwing at the end of the file…
user_pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.aim”,“/usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri”);
Save prefs.js and then open Mozilla/Firefox.
Try out an AIM URI (Try sending me an IM:jholmstadt).
Potentially,this could method be simplified by passing the “uri”argument to gaim-remote directly in prefs.js. However I don’t know how to do this,or if it is even possible.
Alternately,I just found this howto on how to do basically the same thing,but in a different way:Gaim Firefox and Aim:Links