Mozilla 1.0 BugFeature

[Collins]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 05:03:27 -0700 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com>
wrote:
> This is odd. I'm in redhat 7.3 and mozilla opens a new window from
> sylpheed using the command mozilla %s. If I use mozilla -remote
> "openurl(%s,new-window)" it works as well. If I remove the
> new-window, leaving  mozilla -remote "openurl(%s)" it uses the
> existing instance of mozilla. I currently have 2 mozilla windows
> open, and the url is opened in the window on the same desktop as
> sylpheed. 
> 
> Probably just normal behavior, thought I'd throw it in here.
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:04:51 +0200
> Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> 
> > 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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Just cleaning out some old emails, when I can across this thread.  The
answer to all this for me is skipstone, one of the mozilla-gecko-
tabbed browsers.  You don't need to do anything special.  In sylpheed,
all I have is 'skipstone %s', and skipstone is smart enough to open a
new tab for the request.


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