Re: Disable Netscape 7.02 window reuse

David Spade <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.prefs,gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.windows
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 27/05/2003 16:44, Michel Clement wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to tell Netscape 7.02 to *not* reuse any existing browser
> windows, meaning that on every request (using for example ShellExecute() ),
> it'll open the URL in a new location?
> 
> I've tried to set DDE-Parameters HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec
> to "%1",,0,0,,,, (default is '"%1",,-1,0,,,,' which means by -1 in window-ID
> to reuse windows). As NN7.02 deletes and adds this registry entry on
> exit/start, it's hard to have a permanent setting.
> 
> Is there an
> 
> a) official or
> b) approved
> 
> way to achive this feature by central or worst case de-central settings? If
> there is none, is there a forecast for this feature yet?
> 
> By the way: Is anyone happy when existing browser windows are reused? I'm
> not.

user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", false);
user_pref("browser.always_reuse_window", false);

Try either setting those preferences in your user.js or via about:config. They 
should give you the behaviour you want.

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