Re: OT (sort of): firefox .9 and profile manager

Hi Jack,

Not sure if this helps you or not -- but here goes:

Guenther posted a script last November that worked for Mozilla and for
Netscape. I am pretty sure it will work for FF. Here is a quote from his
message as well as the script that he provided (although I have modified
it to work for Netscape on Mandrake 10.0). I use KDE as my desktop
environment and the script works fine to open a new tab in my already
running Netscape. Note that you will have to edit the script to point to
your FF executable, but I am sure it will work. (I use the command to
open things in a new tab when clicked -- the second option in the
instructions below). Here ya go:

Open the "Gnome Control Center" > Preferred Applications > Web Browser
or simply run:
$ gnome-default-applications-properties

 check 'Custom Web Browser'
 Command: gnome-moz-remote --newwin "%s"

This will present you every link (clicked in a Gnome 2 app) in a new
mozilla window. If you prefer tabs (instead of new windows) like me,
change it similar like that:

 Command: mozilla-remote.sh "%s"

Have the attached script in your path (or change the command to have the
whole path) and make the script executable.


If you want to use another browser rather than Mozilla, you have to
adjust the command (or the script for most of them, to enable tabs).



On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 11:02, jack wallen wrote:
> okay it used to be when i clicked on a link in evolution it would
> either:
> 
> open up firefox (if firefox wasn't running)
> or
> open up the link in a new tab (if ff is running).
> 
> but no more. now when i click on a link in evolution it opens up that
> dreaded profile manager. how can i get around this? i've searched google
> high and low and found this script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> FIREFOX_PATH="/opt/firefox/"
> $FIREFOX_PATH/firefox -remote "openURL($@, new-tab)" || exec 
> $FIREFOX_PATH/firefox "$@";
> 
> but that doesn't work either. 
> 
> anyone with any help would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Steve Nelson <[email protected]>

#!/bin/sh

/usr/local/netscape/netscape -remote 'openURL('$1', new-tab)' || mozilla $1 &

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