Re: [SLE] Tabs in FireFox

On Fri October 29 2004 10:03 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Darrell Cormier [10-29-04 09:50]:

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I am assuming by "shell window" you mean something like xterm or konsole.

xterm is a shell window as is konsole

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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

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

big _hint_ right above, accented. You do not have a session of firefox running OR... you are starting firefox from two different installs.

open a second shell window, your choice xterm or konsole or ... start firefox from that window

return to the first shell window and issue the 'remote' instruction and post your results.

-- Patrick

Right. The trick is to figure out what to change in /opt/MozillaFirefox/bin/firefox.sh to get it to either open a new window if one isn't already running OR open a new tab in Firefox if it is already running. And then make that a user configurable option via about:config or the Edit/Preferences within Firefox. I'm not a script guru yet but at first glance I believe that it is doable because to my untrained eye it looks like that start up script may already be trying to do that. Maybe not. Haven't figured it all out yet. That script is testing for a running instance of Firefox, mail, compose, etc and then doing something based on that. Where are my script gurus? Thanks in advance, Stan