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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:18:51 +0100, you wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:19:37PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
When starting firefox from a shell-prompt, an already existing firefox instance will be re-used for the new web page instead of opening a new window. This is very unconvenient, since I often leave browser-windows open so I can read it at a later time.
It turns out that /usr/bin/firefox is actually a shell-script which sets up some environment and starts the real binary after that. This script reuses an existing instance if:
- there are no command line options at all, or - the first command line option does not start with a '-'.
This logic looks pretty weired to me. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way[1] to configure this behaviour.
[1] I know, I could change the script to do what I want. But I hate to do this because it will break automated security updates in the future.
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Since I'm a million years behind on my todo's and I rely on PMRA, I disabled the shell script part of firefox long ago - it hasn't broken anything. I looked thru the script and I doesn't seem to do anything useful. YMMV. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.