Xfce and web browsers

[TerryJ]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 1/6/07, TerryJ <listmail at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>   
>> I ran into an odd problem when I nominated Swiftfox as the preferred
>> browser in Xfce.
>>
>> Whenever I clicked on a link in Thunderbird or the file browser
>> (Thunar), which should have opened a new tab in the last active Swiftfox
>> window, I was instead getting a new, empty Swiftfox window.
>>
>> To overcome the problem, I have nominated Mozilla Firefox as the
>> preferred browser and altered "firefox" and "mozilla-firefox" in
>> /usr/bin so that they refer to swiftfox.
>>
>> I should add that Xfce renders the swiftfox command as swiftfox "%s"  It
>> adds the same strange suffix to thunderbird. Question
>>
>>     
>
> %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"

It has nothing to do with the browser preferences.  They have not changed.

I am still calling the same executable but via a link named 
"mozilla-firefox".


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Regards, TerryJ

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