[Users] Opening link in Firefox

[Pierre Fortin]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:59:31 +0200 Kertesz Laszlo wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:18:36 -0400
>Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:20:34 -0700 John Jason Jordan wrote:
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>> >	firefox '%s'
>> >
>> >But setting it to that in Claws Mail does not bring up the window.
>> >That's the maddening part - having to hunt through all my running
>> >Firefox windows to find the tab.
>> 
>> Minimized all firefox windows, and clicked a link in CM3.8.0cvs26 --
>> last _used_ window (not last minimized) on another desktop opened to
>> new tab with expected content.  I've never seen the reported problem.
>> 
>> My system is x86_64 Mageia 1 based, manually updated with Linux kernel
>> 3.2.9 and firefox 14.0a1 Nightly[1].   CM is set to:
>>     /home/pfortin/Downloads/firefox/firefox '%s'
>
>Tried:
>
>/home/pfortin/Downloads/firefox/firefox -new-window '%s'
>
>?

Works like a champ.  Actually, I'm going to leave it like that because it
avoids switching to my browser desktop.  And now that firefox supports
dragging tabs between windows, I can do that for the odd time I might
want to keep a CM-opened tab around for a longer period.

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>> I have another instance of CM running under a different userid, and
>> the exact same setting (both users in same group) starts a new
>> firefox with expected link...  
>> 
>> NSHBHTH (not sure how; but...)
>> 
>> [1] http://nightly.mozilla.org/
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