Running MozillaFirebird from /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird, which is typically run for links from other applications, opens all links in a new window. This is a useability issue which doesn't seem to be solveable even by using the Tabbed Browsing Extension, and having all links spawn in a new window defeats the purpose of having tabs in the first place. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on a link from an external application. Actual Results: A new Mozilla Firebird window pops up. Expected Results: Opened a new tab containing the page.
Here is the /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird script I always copy over /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird after every update: --- begin /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird #!/bin/sh export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird" ${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=}/MozillaFirebird -remote "openURL($@ ,new-tab)" || exec ${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=}/MozillaFirebird $@ --- end /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird If users still want new window mode then configuration will be needed. Is it reasonable to put an environment variable sourced from some file in /etc? Sort of like... --- begin /etc/mozilla.conf REMOTE_LAUNCH_MODE=new-tab --- end /etc/mozilla.conf --- begin /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird #!/bin/sh export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird" . /etc/mozilla.conf ${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=}/MozillaFirebird -remote "openURL($@ ,$REMOTE_LAUNCH_MODE)" || exec ${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=}/MozillaFirebird $@ --- end /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird
Oops. A couple of typos found there way in somehow. Remove the extraneous '=' signs from the launch lines.
/etc/mozilla.conf seems kind of dumb (no offense) perhaps ${HOME}/.phoenix/mozilla.conf would be better
No offense taken, and you're right, I don't know what the hell I was thinking. I guess I wanted a sane default so users don't have to edit it in separately. Maybe just make new-tab the default in the script but the but the user can override it to new-window if they're a big fan of that behaviour. That being said, I asked around a few firebird users and they all seemed to be really happy when I told them what file to hack to fix the behaviour. If it's going to be in ~/.phoenix, ~/.phoenix/remote.conf sounds better since it's more specific (~/.phoenix/mozilla.conf is sort of redundant since Phoenix is about to _be_ Mozilla.) You know to be completely customisation-happy, you _could_ make it ~/.phoenix/remote.sh, which is exec'd "if [ -x ~/.phoenix/remote.sh ]". :-)
This is fixed in the firefox script. Look at the top of the script; you can set MOZILLA_NEWTYPE=tab in your environment if you want.
