On 11May2007 19:57, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On 5/11/07, Tony Crouch <acrouch2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | >I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to open a new firefox window | >when you already have one instance of the window already open. | >For example, I may have a firefox window already open in Gnome window 1. | >I then move to Gnome window 2, open a terminal window and type: | > firefox `pwd`/fav_html_file.html | >to open a desired html file. | >However, firefox does not open a "new" window. It just opens a new "tab" | >in the original Gnome window 1 instance of firefox. | | OK, obligatory question: Did you try File->New Window ? Obligatory answer: that's not using the command line. He's probably testing the innards of some script automation. The usual command line tool is mozilla-xremote-client (or firefox-xremote-client). You go: mozilla-xremote-client "openurl($url,new-tab)" or mozilla-xremote-client "openurl($url,new-window)" where $url contains the desired URL. Plain "firefox" is actually a wrapper script with all sorts of inner logic; stay far far away from it! It is possible to configure the browser to not honour the "new-window", but with the default configuration those two incantations do what you want. I do it all the time. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Clymer's photographs of this procedure show a very clean head. This is a lie. There is oil in here, and lots of it. - Mike Mitten, rec.moto, 29sep1993
