After selecting firefox and the tab in the preference of gaim, whenever a instance of firefox is running, and I try to open up the links of gaim, the links opens into the tab but the profile manager pops up too. And the same in liferea, xfhelp4. In case of xfhelp4, a new window opens up, but the profile manager too. My.. firefox is 1.0.2 mozilla-launcher is 1.29
Also I get small window at center of screen with title "Gecko" if I try run firefox twice or more. if I try clean /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox - it works well fix needed. I can make screenshots if it is actually.
Added this line to my .xinitrc export MOZILLA_NEWTYPE="tab" And I select firefox and browser default in the preference of gaim and lifere, the links open into the tab without any problem. But xfhelp4 still pops up the profile manager.
I also had the problem where a small gecko window would open up whenever I launched a new firefox window. The solution for me was to put MOZILLA_NEWTYPE='window' in /etc/profile.env. The mozilla-launcher ebuild should do this for you, I'm not sure how to make an ebuild do this so maybe someone else can make a patch?
I second the fact that the clobbering-of-old-pages default behavior in the newer mozilla-launcher versions is stupid and that the ebuilds should do what Ben said.
Alexey, the bug you report in comment #1 is duplicate of bug 86458, was fixed in mozilla-launcher-1.30, and is unrelated to the original report in this bug. Ben, you need to either configure your browser, or set MOZILLA_LAUNCHER in the environment yourself now. I modified the default to use openURL(url) without specifying new-window or new-tab so that browser preferences can take effect. See bug 82653. Setting it in /etc/env.d would effectively bring back the old behavior of overriding browser prefs. Kim, one problem you're hitting is that xfhelp4 incorrectly calls "firefox -a firefox". The -a option only applies to mozilla-xremote-client, not the firefox binary, so I'm not sure what they were thinking when they wrote that. Anyway, I fixed mozilla-launcher to handle that situation in version 1.31, now in portage. I'm checking into the other things reported by Kim to determine if they are still issues. Please add comments to this bug only if you believe they are directly related.
Kim, I tested from gaim and everything seems to be working. Please re-open this bug if it is still broken for you.
