Comment 4 for bug 874719

You're right, it should not open a new instance, but it does. Hence the bug.

2012/5/2, Caio Alonso <email address hidden>:
> The /usr/share/applications/midori.desktop contains the entry that
> describes the command called when clicking on a http link throughout the
> system:
>
> Exec=midori %U
>
> which, since %U gets replaced by the URL, should not open a new midori
> instance.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874719
>
> Title:
> Following a link from external application opens a new instance of
> Midori instead of using the existing one
>
> Status in Midori: Webkit Web browser:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When I click a link from, say, Postler (the other app doesn't matter)
> it opens a new instance of Midori, even when Midori is already open. I
> can tell that it's a new instance and not just a new window of the
> same instance because it opens all my tabs again (it's set to remember
> last used tabs).
>
> Then there's a strange behavior, because if I open another link from
> Postler, the instance created by it opens the new link; but if I use a
> new app to open a link (for example, Polly) I get even another
> instance of Midori.
>
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