On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:48:02 -0300
"Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/21/06, L505 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Where's the the Lin32 API when you need it? (Ermm. good quote of the
> > year)
>
> Lol! Like people say here. It doesn't exist yet, but fell free to
> implement it. rssss
>
> > Does firefox have some sort of API that allows users to remote control
> > it from another process? Does *NIX itself offer any standard
> > inter-process communication tactic or must each program contain a home
> > brewed custom server damon (written from scratch each time) to receive
> > unix sockets or other API/remote communication?
>
> You don't need a Firefox API to do this. Just send the shell command:
> "mozilla-firefox www.google.com" and if firefox is already open, it
> will open the page without opening a new instance. I tested here, try
> on your command line with firefox already open. If you want it to open
> a new instance, there is probably a command line switch for this.
See examples/openbrowser/ how to do that with mozilla, galeon, firefox,
konqueror, netscape and opera.
Mattias
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