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Mozilla (official) Open New Window script

I've been googlin' for a while trying to find the actual (official) Open New Window script from Mozilla.org ... I've found it pasted into forums, but I was hoping to get the link because some people tend to leave things out.

And before you say "why not ctrl-N? how hard is that?" ... I usually have windows on top of windows on top of windows because I do several things at once (wow, multitask, who would have thought?).

Thanks in Advance.

You mean the script that opens a new Mozilla window instead of the Profile Manager? The one that first checks whether Mozilla is running and if it is, uses the openURL remote command?

Look what I found in the launch script firefox, in package firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz:

Code:

# The following is to check for a currently running instance.

# This is taken almost verbatim from the Mozilla RPM package's launch script.

MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM=$dist_bin/mozilla-xremote-client

check_running() {

    $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM -a firefox 'ping()' 2>/dev/null >/dev/null

    RETURN_VAL=$?

    if [ $RETURN_VAL -eq 0 ]; then

        echo 1

        return 1

    else

        echo 0

        return 0

    fi

}



ALREADY_RUNNING=`check_running`



if [ $ALREADY_RUNNING -eq 1 ] && [ -z "$1" ]; then

  exec $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM -a firefox "xfeDoCommand(openBrowser)" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null

fi

# End of section that checks for currently running instance. - jtg

This is as official as it gets. It's nice to see that it's finally been implemented in Firefox. Saves many people from headaches. They use mozilla-xremote-client to open the new window.

Regards
Simon