Xfce and web browsers

Charles A Edwards eslrahc at bellsouth.net
Sun Jan 7 05:23:02 CET 2007


On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 23:11:50 -0500
Erik Harrison wrote:



> %s is the argument being passed. It's substituted.
> 
> You've upgraded to Firefox 2.0 (err, Swiftfox), which has as the
> default behavior to open URLs in new tabs. Go to
> Edit->Preferences->Tabs and say "New content should be opened in a new
> window"

For that behavior in the external program browser preference I simply
use

firefox -remote 'openurl(%s,new-window)'

This is with mozilla-firefox-2.0-2mdv2007.1


    Charles

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