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. -- No software patents in Europe -- http://nosoftwarepatents.com -- Josef Wolf -- jw@raven.inka.de --