Xfce and web browsers

[TerryJ]

TerryJ wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip>        
>>>>>           
>>>> %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
>
> <snip>  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. :'(

This monster has more than one head.

Today, the browser (Swiftfox) crashes whenever I log in to Gmail.  As 
soon as the Inbox loads, the browser crashes.

So, I tried to use Konqueror.  Konqueror (bless it) downloads the Gmail 
login page to /tmp and then opens the cached copy in Swiftfox.  Mumble, 
mutter, mutter.

In the meantime, I've uninstalled Firefox.  I tried making Konqueror the 
preferred application.  That made no difference.

I think I can overcome the cached copy nonsense by adding %u to the 
Swiftfox menu command in Kde.  BUT that will just mean that Konqueror 
will use Swiftfox to open the login page.

Is it possible to have more than one browser function in Xfce and, if 
so, how?


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Regards, TerryJ

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