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Re: Firefox 1.5 and URLs from outside applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Mon Jun 12 13:18:57 2006
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:18:49 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
On Jun 12, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> When I click on a URL in Evolution, it opens a tab in my existing
> browser rather than opening a new window. This is easily controllable
> via a preference (which is presumably new in Firefox 1.5), but
> represents a change in default behavior.
This isn't new in Firefox 1.5; the change in behavior is a result of
our wrapper script's now simply invoking the stock program, instead
of trying to parse the command line argument. Our old wrapper
explicitly invoked firefox with the "new-window" option in this case,
effectively overriding the user's preference setting (this derived
from the old netscape and mozilla wrappers, predating the tabs
feature).
I agree that we don't want to change the Firefox default, but
should simply document the change in behavior, and how to
change the preference.
Bob
