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Josef, On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:18, Josef Wolf wrote:
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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.
This script is internal. It's logically no different then the C (or C++) code inside the binary. Do not alter it.
[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.
Why, oh why, must people mess with things like this? Use the available options for contolling dispensation of URLs sent via the "-remote" option, as I showed with the scripts I posted (modulo the redirection correction pointed out by Joachim Schrod). Randall Schulz