Open links in firefox tabs

[ChristofferS]

Hi,

A nice wrapperscript for firefox is the 'mozffremote' script used by mandrake in
Mandrake Community 10.1. When you click a link in eg. evolution, the script will
open a new tab in firefox if it already running.

Please include it in Ubuntu.

Here it is:

if mozilla-firefox -a firefox -remote "ping()" 2> /dev/null ; then
    if [ -z "$1" ]; then
        mozilla-firefox -a firefox -remote "xfeDoCommand (openBrowser)"
    else
        mozilla-firefox -a firefox -remote "openURL($1,new-tab)"
    fi
else
    mozilla-firefox $1 &
fi

[Thom May (thombot)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Hi,
>
> A nice wrapperscript for firefox is the 'mozffremote' script used by mandrake in
> Mandrake Community 10.1. When you click a link in eg. evolution, the script will
> open a new tab in firefox if it already running.
>

You can enable this in ubuntu by editing /etc/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefoxrc
and setting FIREFOX_OPEN_IN to tab
I'm not sure we want to enable this by default though - might cause serious user
confusion.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You can enable this in ubuntu by editing /etc/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefoxrc
> and setting FIREFOX_OPEN_IN to tab
> I'm not sure we want to enable this by default though - might cause serious user
> confusion.

That sounds like excellent FAQ information (I didn't know about this myself);
please add it to the wiki

[ChristofferS (ubuntu-curo)]

I don't know if it is Ubuntu policy to consider this a bug since it can only be
changed using the CLI ?

It is okay with me to just put it on the wiki.

[Thom May (thombot)]

Done.