Xfce and web browsers

[Erik Harrison]

On 1/6/07, TerryJ <listmail at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> 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".
>

I see. My pardon. Have you tried this on the command line? I'm fairly
certain this is an application issue

>
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>
> Regards, TerryJ
>
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Erik

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