mozilla tip -remote & moz 1.2.1

Collins erichey2
Mon May 17 11:41:17 PDT 2004


Everyone but me probably knows this, but it took me a lot of digging
to find. 

There is no 'man mozilla', but mozilla -help does return some basic
information, including a URL with the syntax for -remote commands,
namely

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

A brief perusal of that page led me to the appropriate command to
cause sylpheed to open a url as a new tab in my already running
mozilla instance, namely

	mozilla -remote 'openurl(%s,new-tab)'  2>/dev/null

I can't believe how many times I've asked the question how to do that
without ever getting the complete answer!

BTW, mozilla 1.2.1 is great, and I've even got plugins to work.  So I
don't need galeon or skipstone or any of the other alternatives.  Also
mozilla has finally dropped the irritating behavior of prompting for a
profile when you start a second instance.

--
Collins Richey - Denver Area
gentoo 1.4 system


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