firefox CLI new window

[Chris G]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:55:13PM +1000, Tony Crouch 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.
> 
There's a -noremote option to the firefox command line that should
start up a new instance rather than using the existing one.

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Chris Green