On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, DJ Lucas wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > I've done some more testing on this. Building firefox-1.0.4 with the > > attached build script should produce a copy of firefox in /usr/lib and > > make a symbolic link pointing at it from /usr/bin. Running firefox and > > then trying to open a second instance will open the new url in the > > current window. The solution is to replace the /usr/lib/firefox/firefox > > script with the attached firefox script. This will open a second > > instance of firefox in a new window (can be changed to a new tab by > > editing line 188). Hope this helps > > That's okay. I've got it so mixed up now I don't know what to think. > In a couple of more rebuilds, I broke or fixed something someplace. > There is something residual someplace but I'll be damned if I can find > it. Both installed and packaged work correctly with whatever behavior > is set in 'firefox>edit>preferences>advanced>tabbed_browsing'. I'll > need to start from clean I think because I can't even beg for the > profile manager to return, and I have no idea why. My script is gone, > and gnome prefered browser is set to '/usr/bin/firefox %s'. > > Interesting is that I can't, from a gnome-term, do '/usr/bin/firefox > http://www.google.com' and get the same behavior...it just overwrites > the latest window in all cases (either copy of firefox open), but open a > link (using the right click menu) in the same gnome-term, in the same > command line, and it works as expected, and I have no reason to give. >
Can I just reawaken this thread to report success with what was basically Andrew's build script (I needed to rebuild for 1.0.5, did without a separate build directory, was unable to build svg just like all firefox releases) ? Installed by untarring dist/firefox*tar.gz into /usr/lib. What I found interesting was that with a running firefox, calling it with a url from an xterm opened a new tab (suggestions in the thread that it might overwrite the current tab). Nice. I'd run firefox first as root after upgrading, but I guess everyone remembers to do that. I didn't attempt to alter any of the 'run-mozilla' or 'firefox' scripts. It's now installed in /usr/lib/firefox (without the version number) which is more tidy, probably helps with existing plugins (at least when it's a security upgrade of firefox rather than a real new version), and seems to be easier for realplayer (just upgraded that to 10.0.5.756, didn't get asked where the plugins directory was, looks as if it just worked). Sweet. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
