Re: New Tab in Mozilla
* A. S. Budden <mutt.mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 2003-11-07 19:22 +0100:
> 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.
Just for the record, I was probably me who wrote the mozilla.sh
script. Happy to hear you find it useful!
-Andre