On Friday 29 October 2004 09:23 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Darrell Cormier <linuxdev@sptc.net> [10-29-04 08:30]:
/usr/bin/firefox -remote 'openURL(%u,new-tab)' /usr/bin/firefox -remote 'openURL(%s,new-tab)'
open a session of firefox open a shell window and within that window issue the 'remote' commands listed above
post the results
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I am assuming by "shell window" you mean something like xterm or konsole. In an xterm window I issued the following with the same results as mentioned in the previous post: :~> /usr/bin/firefox -remote 'openURL(%u,new-tab)' Error: No running window found :~> /usr/bin/firefox -remote 'openURL(%s,new-tab)' Error: No running window found :~> /usr/bin/firefox -remote 'openURL(mapquest.com,new-tab)' Error: No running window found :~> /usr/bin/firefox -remote 'openURL(www.mapquest.com,new-tab)' Error: No running window found :~> /usr/bin/firefox -remote 'openURL(www.mapquest.com,new-tab)' Error: No running window found Darrell