Xfce and web browsers

[TerryJ]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> 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
>   

Well, it's another one of those oddities.

I've changed the preferred application back to Swiftfox and also opened 
an .html document from Thunar with Swiftfox.  Links from both 
Thunderbird and Thunar now open in a new tab in the existing Swiftfox 
window. =-O

I just can't get the previous behaviour to repeat.  In the course of 
trying to fix it, I removed the firefox executable from /usr/bin and 
replaced it with a link named "firefox" to swiftfox.  I altered the link 
"mozilla-firefox" so that it also referred to swiftfox.

At the time, those changes seemed to make no difference.  What seems to 
have made the difference is changing the preferred application to 
"mozilla-firefox" and changing it back to swiftfox. 

I can't take it any more. :'(


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Regards, TerryJ

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