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Re: New Tab in Mozilla



Thus spake Malte Neumann:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:46:31PM +0100, Anca Tibor- Attila wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am using mozilla (1.5) in urlview to open the links. Does somebody 
> > know, how can I tell (parameter) urlview to use the open instance of 
> > mozilla, just opening a new tab for the link?
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Tibor
> 
> I use the following commands in .urlview:
> 
> REGEXP  (((https?|ftp|gopher)://|(mailto|file|news):)[^' 
> \t<>"]+|(www|web|w3)\.[-a-z0-9.]+)
> COMMAND mozilla.sh %s > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &
> 
> and use the script mozilla.sh to start either a new instance of mozilla or
> use and already open instance and just use a new tab:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> URL=$@
> /opt/mozilla -remote "openurl($URL, new-tab)" || /opt/mozilla $URL
> 
> I didn't invent this nice solution, but got it from A. S. Budden over this
> list. But it works perfectly for me.
> 

Credit where credit's due, I didn't write this either.  Unfortunately, I
can't be gracious enough to say who did -- it was a long time ago I
installed this particular one.

Cheers,

Al