Cannot open firefox from link if it is already running

[Bob Snyder]

Marc Schwartz wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:13, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>  
>
>>On 09/02/04 14:06, Chris Kacoroski wrote:
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>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am sure there is way to fix this (I do not have the problem with KDE). 
>>>   If I have a firefox window open and then I click on a link in 
>>>another application (e.g. thunderbird, xffm, the panel, etc) I get the 
>>>choose user dialog and cannot open the link unless I exit the existing 
>>>firefox windows.  Other than this, I am completely sold on xfce as it is 
>>>much simpler, easier, and more intuitive than kde or gnome. Thanks for 
>>>your help.
>>>      
>>>
>>this has nothing to do with xfce.  you need some kind of script that will
>>launch firefox properly.  basically it needs to end up doing something like
>>this:
>>
>>firefox -remote "openURL(http://google.com,new-window)"
>>
>>i believe there are much more functional anf featureful scripts floating
>>around that will first check to see if firefox is running, etc.  google is
>>your friend ^_^.
>>    
>>
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>
>Here is one:
>
>#!/bin/sh 
>
>/usr/include/firefox/firefox -a firefox -remote 'ping()' 
>if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then 
>#open a new window 
>/usr/include/firefox/firefox -a firefox -remote "openurl($1,new-window)"
>else 
>#open new instance 
>/usr/include/firefox/firefox $1 &
>fi
>
>
>The above had to be changed (lines 1 and 4) in the recent version of
>Firefox, so be aware of that. The change entails the '-a firefox' part.
>
>I use the above in a shell script that I put in ~/bin and then set any
>HTML related application preferences (including htmlview) and the 'run
>action' for ROX to that script.
>
>If you would prefer to open a new 'tab' instead of a new window, change
>'new-window' in the above to 'new-tab'.
>
>HTH,
>
>Marc Schwartz
>  
>

I tried this script and it almost worked! First I had to change the path 
to firefox (I'm curious why you have it installed in /usr/include).

When I click a link, the window (or tab) opens, and the page appears 
normally, but all the links in the page are broken. The URL that is 
opened is a temp file on the local machine rather than the actual URL 
(I'm running ff 0.9.3). What am I doing wrong?

Bob S.