> I was wondering how do you manage to view HTML contents since
> nowadays most of our e-mails are written like this.
>
> Works well for me using '/opt/bin/netscape' as you can see from
> the screenshot enclosed. This netscape file is a symbolic link
> to /usr/bin/firefox, in fact ;-)
[...]
> This worked for many years but stopped working with latest ver-
> sions of firefox (i.e. 100.0-2.fc36). So I must downgrade to
> version 93.0-2.fc35.x86_64 to keep that stuff up & running :-(
Mozilla removed support for the old command line syntax for Firefox
remote control a while back, so you need to switch to the new syntax.
The equivalent command line is:
firefox --new-window
(The various arguments are covered in the Firefox manual page.)
The change in command line syntax wasn't as arbitrary as it sounds,
because Mozilla was changing the remote control mechanism as well.
As suggested by the old syntax, the old remote control approach was
essentially making RPC function calls to the running Firefox. In
practice these had not been actual function calls for a long time,
so the Firefox remote control code had to pick apart the strings it
got to determine what to do. The new approach is more direct, with
less pretense going on.
(The actual way it works is best not examined too closely, unless
you like seeing the sausage being made.)
As a side note, in the past you could send a running Firefox (on X)
remote control commands from another program, including from another
machine. As a practical matter this is now no longer the case; Unix
Firefox can now pretty much only be sent remote commands by running
Firefox on the same machine.
(The technical detail is that on X, Firefox remote control used to
work through X properties. Firefox has increasingly been switching
to remote control via DBus, which is intrinsically local and which
as far as I know, no one has written a program to talk to.)
- cks
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