[Users] Opening link in Firefox

[Kevin Nathan]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:47:17 +0100
Michael <codejodler at gmx.ch> wrote:

>Kevin,
>
>> My setting in External Programs is:
>> 
>>    firefox -remote 'openURL(%s,new-window)'
>
>That's an interesting option. However, i couldn't get that option to
>work in Debian iceweasel 10 and it is not documented in the manpage
>either. Maybe it was not compiled in, or even dropped completely in
>that version ? 
>

I think the -remote is the default because they only list -no-remote.


>According to http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html  there is
>also openURL(URL,new-tab) and one could investigate if that makes a
>difference. 

I did that in mine (I thought I mentioned it) and they both (new-tab or
new-window) raise the FF window and go to the tab. Changing it to
firefox -new-window '%s' and firefox -new-tab '%s' both work as before
(raise FF window and switch to tab).


>However, i would think the both are just the same as the
>plain -new-tab and -new-window option. Would you be able to clarify if
>just doing a firefox -new-window instead (in claws) would achieve the
>same result for you ?
>

(See above comment) I remember have to use the openURL call a *long*
time ago when the quotes didn't cut it, and I just never changed
it. :-) 


>So if it basically works for you, then chances are the original
>problem was caused by insufficient compatibility between ff and the
>window manager. It would be interesting to know which window manager
>your openSUSE uses, i.e., it's upstream name.

I use WindowMaker (http://windowmaker.org/). I haven't tried it in a
different manager in a while, although I used to use icewm and KDE with
these same settings and no problems.


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