firefox CLI new window

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 12 May 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 5/12/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 May 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
> > > On 5/11/07, Tony Crouch <acrouch2 at une.edu.au> wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to open a new firefox window
> > > > when you already have one instance of the window already open.
> > > >
> > > > For example, I may have a firefox window already open in Gnome window
> > > > 1. I then move to Gnome window 2, open a terminal window and type:
> > > >
> > > > firefox `pwd`/fav_html_file.html
> > > >
> > > > to open a desired html file.
> > > >
> > > > However, firefox does not open a "new" window. It just opens a new
> > > > "tab" in the original Gnome window 1 instance of firefox.
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if anyone would know how to force firefox to open a
> > > > new instance of itself (i.e. a new firefox window) in the current
> > > > Gnome window.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your help.
> > > >
> > > > All the best.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Tony Crouch
> > >
> > > OK, obligatory question: Did you try File->New Window ?
> >
> > Firefox in FC6 is buggy - and no, I haven't reported it, or even checked
> > whether it has been reported.  If you ask for a link to be opened in a
> > new window it automatically opens it in a new tab.  You then have to use
> > 'Detach Tab'.
> >
> > Anne
>
> It works. You have to use the "-new-window" parameter.

Inside konqueror?  I don't think so.  Other versions of FF can do it.  This 
one can't.

Anne
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