On 5/12/07, Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:55:13PM +1000, Tony Crouch wrote: > Hi All, > 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. > > I was wondering if anyone would know how to force firefox to open a new > instance of itself (i.e. a new firefox window) in the current Gnome > window. > There's a -noremote option to the firefox command line that should start up a new instance rather than using the existing one. -- Chris Green
You can actually get Firefox to open a new window from the command line: http://occy.net/node/165 If you're too lazy to chase the link, try "firefox -new-window http://gmail.com"; or whatever URL you desire to open.
