Re: Cannot open firefox from link if it is already running

Marc Schwartz wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 22:45, Bob Snyder wrote:
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> > Marc Schwartz wrote:
> >    
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> > snip
> >    
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> > > Here is one:
> > >
> > > #!/bin/sh 
> > >
> > > /usr/include/firefox/firefox -a firefox -remote 'ping()' 
> > > if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then 
> > > #open a new window 
> > > /usr/include/firefox/firefox -a firefox -remote "openurl($1,new-window)"
> > > else 
> > > #open new instance 
> > > /usr/include/firefox/firefox $1 &
> > > fi
> > >
> > >
> > > The above had to be changed (lines 1 and 4) in the recent version of
> > > Firefox, so be aware of that. The change entails the '-a firefox' part.
> > >
> > > I use the above in a shell script that I put in ~/bin and then set any
> > > HTML related application preferences (including htmlview) and the 'run
> > > action' for ROX to that script.
> > >
> > > If you would prefer to open a new 'tab' instead of a new window, change
> > > 'new-window' in the above to 'new-tab'.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > Marc Schwartz
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > I tried this script and it almost worked! First I had to change the path 
> > to firefox (I'm curious why you have it installed in /usr/include).
> >    
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> Because I'm an idiot.  :-)
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> It should be /usr/lib/firefox...
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> > When I click a link, the window (or tab) opens, and the page appears 
> > normally, but all the links in the page are broken. The URL that is 
> > opened is a temp file on the local machine rather than the actual URL 
> > (I'm running ff 0.9.3). What am I doing wrong?
> >    
>
> Not sure about the problem with the links. I don't have that here.
>
> How did you install Firefox and what distro?
>
> I am running FC2. I initially used an RPM from one of the FC
> repositories, but I found that the packager had played around with the
> Firefox start up script and that caused some problems.
>
> So I uninstalled the RPM and used the Firefox Linux/XFT installation
> tarball. I installed that as root and it works much better.
>
> Not sure if that helps you or not.
>
> Marc

My distro is an older Slackware that I've upgraded manually to the 
latest of most everything. gcc, glibc, gtk+2.4, etc. Firefox was 
installed with the new installer.

When I click on a link in an email, for example, firefox opens a new 
tab, but the URL displayed is like this: file:///tmp/0qgcwitz-1.html. 
Firefox has copied the whole page to my /tmp, and opened it from there. 
Obviously the relative links don't work, but the absolute links do.

Does anyone else observe this behavior?

Sorry, this has gotten kind of off-topic.

Bob S.



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