annoying mozilla 'feature'

Smokey · 08-31-2004, 01:00 PM

whenever I have an instance of mozilla already running and say I open a link from irc a profile thing comes up and I have to shut down an existing mozilla window so I can open it directly....how can I stop this?

XavierP · 08-31-2004, 01:01 PM

Xchat gives the option to "open in a new tab" - what are you using?

And this is moved to Linux-Software as it isn't Slackware specific.

Smokey · 08-31-2004, 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by XavierP
Xchat gives the option to "open in a new tab" - what are you using?

And this is moved to Linux-Software as it isn't Slackware specific.

ok but I remember to disable this there was something called a wrapper?

rignes · 08-31-2004, 01:30 PM

I had the same problem with firefox. I found and used this wrapper which opened new tabs for me. I don't know if it workd with mozilla but you can give it a try.

#!/bin/sh
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/local/lib/firefox-0.9.3"

url="$1"
if [ "x$url" = "x" ]; then
url="about:blank"
fi

if $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox openURL$"$url",new-tab$; then
exit 0
fi
exec $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/firefox "$url"

Good luck.

Not now, John! · 08-31-2004, 04:34 PM

Here's also my solution:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
if [ `ps -C firefox-bin -o comm= | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then
  /opt/firefox/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openURL($1,new-window)"
else
  /opt/firefox/firefox "$1"
fi

It works with Firefox 0.9.3