2008/4/25, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 03:46:39PM -0300, alex wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 2.0.0.14-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> >
> >
> > iceweasel -remote 'OpenURL(http://www.whatever.com)' opens a new tab by
> > default. Accordingly to the standard behaviour of previous versions and
> the
> > documentation, it should only do so when passed the parameter new-tab,
> e.g.
> > -remote 'OpenURL(http://www.whatever.com,new-tab)'.
>
> -remote 'openurl(url)' follows the preferences, and you can choose
> whether you want links to be opened in a new tab or a new window.
>
> If you always want to open in a new window, whichever you chose in the
> preferences, you need to use -remote openurl(url,new-window).
>
> This has been such at least from version 2.0, and I think it was already
> like this in version 1.5.
>
>
I'm aware of the new-window and new-tab options, the former exists since
netscape navigator and the latter was added on mozilla, even before firefox.
What I don't see is the option of doing neither, which IIRC worked at least
until firefox 1.5. In that case, the url would be opened in the most
recently used window/tab (which can be annoying at some times, but very
useful on others), which has nothing to do with the window/tab trade-off,
because (as used to be and as still documented upstream) that is about
creating one of two new screen elements and the OpenURL() command alwas had
the option of creating neither. There's no option on the user interface to
revert to that.
