Mozilla 1.0 BugFeature

[Joel Hammer]

I forget where I got this info from, but netscape has an option which allows
you to open a link in a running instance of netscape. Netscape starts with a
script, so the following script I put together (full of bugs but it works):
#!/bin/bash
a=`ps xuw | grep mozilla | grep -v grep`
# [ "$a" ] || a=`ps xuw | grep netscape | grep -v grep`
[ -n "$a" ] && {
            /usr/local/netscape/netscape -remote "openURL(`xclip -o`)" &
     }
[ -z "$a" ] && {
            /usr/local/netscape/netscape "`xclip -o`" &
                }
Mozilla may have a similar option.

Of course, I can't even find where the binary is anymore.
Joel



On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:18:45PM -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Probably not everyone will agree, but I deem this to be a showstopper 
> BugFeature (tm) in Mozilla 1.0.
> 
> Seems they have intentionally made it so that multiple instances of the 
> browser cannot be run. So simply clicking on a link in Kmail to bring up a 
> second window won't work. Or even just running it twice from the CLI or 
> menu won't either.
> 
> Here's one of several Bugzilla's about it:
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135137
> 
> Note that I can run multiple instances of Opera, Konqueror, Internet 
> Explorer, Netscape, and even Mozilla (before 1.0rc3) with no worries about 
> "profile corruption".
> 
> This makes Mozilla largely useless as a browser to me - most every time I 
> click on a link it refuses to start.
> 
> Is there any other worthwhile choice other than Opera?
> 
> Michael
> 
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