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Josef, On Monday 12 December 2005 08:19, Josef Wolf wrote:
Hello!
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. I have followed the instructions described on http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#beh_reuse, but thisdid not help. Any idea what I am doing wrong here?
I have a few little helper scripts through which I route all Firefox access from other applications. One opens a new window, another a new tab and the last reuses the currently displayed tab (in the most recently displayed window, I think). -==-firewin-==--==-firewin-==--==-firewin-==--==-firewin-==- #!/bin/bash --norc firefox -remote "openURL($1, new-window)" >~/.xsession-errors 2>&1 -==-firewin-==--==-firewin-==--==-firewin-==--==-firewin-==- -==-firetab-==--==-firetab-==--==-firetab-==--==-firetab-==- #!/bin/bash --norc firefox -remote "openURL($1, new-tab)" >~/.xsession-errors 2>&1 -==-firetab-==--==-firetab-==--==-firetab-==--==-firetab-==- -==-fireopen-==--==-fireopen-==--==-fireopen-==--==-fireopen-==- #!/bin/bash --norc firefox -remote "openURL($1)" >~/.xsession-errors 2>&1 -==-fireopen-==--==-fireopen-==--==-fireopen-==--==-fireopen-==- These all assume their single argument is a well-formed URL. Thus, they're not a drop-in replacement for all existing invocations of firefox, which may include "-remote ..." and other Firefox-specific options.
-- Josef Wolf -- jw@raven.inka.de --
Randall Schulz