Re: Firefox 0.9 remote control

here's teh script i'm using to call up firefox:

/opt/firefox/mozilla-xremote-client "openURL($@,new-tab)" || firefox $1
&

it took me about a week to get it working right (and a lot of help from
a lot of people).

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 16:18, Thomas R. Burkholder wrote:
> I'm still having trouble passing the URL to $arg in gnome-control-center
> preferred applications. 
> 
> /path_to_app/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openurl(URL,new-tab)" 
> pulls up URL perfectly from bash.  
> 
> I've tried:
> 
> /path_to_app/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openurl(%s,new-tab)" 
> which pulls up a blank tab and gets redirected to hoovers.com
> 
> and escaping the %s with '%s' and "%s" which give me a literal %s as a
> URL.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to escape the %s so that it gets interpreted
> correctly?
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 10:59, Paul Hands wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I found, like many others, that the remote control of firefox has
> > changed from 0.8 to 0.9.  They actually changed the remote control
> > functionality, so that existing scripts used to invoke a new window on
> > an existing firefox process no longer work.
> > 
> > The answer is to use the supplied mozilla-xremote-client command, and
> > to add the -a firefox argument.
> > 
> > As an example, the command now looks like this....
> > 
> > mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openurl($arg,new-window)"
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> 
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