Mozilla 1.0 BugFeature

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Mon May 17 11:33:13 PDT 2004


On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:45:17 -0500
Michael Hipp <mhipp at redmule.com> wrote:

> I don't want to run a second instance as the same user. I just want to be 
> able to click on a link, say in Kmail, and have the silly thing come up. 
> Works in every other browser known to mankind.
> 
> Yes. You can run it twice from within. But from without it refuses. Tabbed
> browsing only works from within the app.
> 
> Where is "-remoteURL(foo)" documented? I've now seen 4 different versions
> of this sort of option and can't find the real deal anywhere? I'd like to
> RTFM if I could find one.

As of Mozilla 1.0, this is different. The command is:

	mozilla -remote "openurl(%s,new-window)"

replacing %s with whatever gets the name of the url you want.

Check out:	http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

(I got the address from running 'mozilla --help')


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