On 5/12/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Saturday 12 May 2007, Kam Leo wrote: > On 5/11/07, Tony Crouch <acrouch2@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > All the best. > > > > Cheers, > > Tony Crouch > > OK, obligatory question: Did you try File->New Window ? Firefox in FC6 is buggy - and no, I haven't reported it, or even checked whether it has been reported. If you ask for a link to be opened in a new window it automatically opens it in a new tab. You then have to use 'Detach Tab'. Anne
It works. You have to use the "-new-window" parameter.
