Xfce and web browsers

[TerryJ]

Charles A Edwards wrote:
> 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

What behaviour?

If I nominate "mozilla-firefox" (secretly a link to the swiftfox 
executable), links open in a new tab in the last active window.

If I nominate swiftfox (without using any disguise), the links open a 
new, *empty* window.

Same executable, different name in the Settings manager.  How rational 
is that?

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Regards, TerryJ

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