Xfce and web browsers

[TerryJ]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 1/7/07, Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle at gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> * Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> [2007-01-07 05:11]:
>>     
>>> 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
>>>       
>> Swiftfox? What's this?
>>     
>
> Processor optimized builds of Firefox.

http://getswiftfox.com/

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Regards, TerryJ

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