Bug 40836

Summary:	/usr/bin/mozilla should have an option to open all URLs in a new window
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	mozilla	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Version:	7.1	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2001-05-16 06:41:09 UTC

It would be nice if /usr/bin/mozilla would consult some config file
(preferably - both system-wide and user-level config files) to choose
whether to use the "new-window" flag on -remote "openurl(...)". Otherwise I
have to remember to edit /usr/bin/mozilla every time I want to switch the
version of Mozilla I am using. :-)

Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2001-05-22 14:47:28 UTC

This is especially important in light of
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41527 - in the current builds of
Mozilla openurl would not work at all without the new-window argument.

Comment 2 Christopher Blizzard 2001-06-09 22:04:20 UTC

That's up to the person calling -remote.  I don't want to add strange defaults.

Plus, the openurl problems have been fixed in 0.9.1 which should be in rawhide
shortly.

Comment 3 Aleksey Nogin 2001-06-09 22:12:15 UTC

But it's not the caller who specified the -remote option, it's the
/usr/bin/mozilla (that comes with the RPM) script that does it!

To reproduce:
1) Run /usr/bin/mozilla http://www.redhat.com/

Actual result:
One of the current browser windows goes to http://www.redhat.com/

Desired result:
A new window is opened with http://www.redhat.com/

Currently, I achieve the desired result by editing /usr/bin/mozilla and replacing
$MOZ_PROGRAM -remote "openurl($opt)" 2>/dev/null > /dev/null
with
$MOZ_PROGRAM -remote "openurl($opt,new-window)" 2>/dev/null > /dev/null

Unfortunatelly, I have to do it every time I upgrade the RPM (which I do pretty
often). 

It would be better if /usr/bin/mozilla would consult the environment or some
config file to decide whether do openurl($opt) or openurl($opt,new-window)

Comment 4 Christopher Blizzard 2001-06-09 22:17:40 UTC

I don't want to have more than one way to specify the same option.  If you want,
 wander over to mozilla's bug tracking system and whip up a patch that ads a
real mozilla pref for defaulting all openurl() requests to a new window.  It
should be 6 lines of C++ and a new pref panel.

Comment 5 Aleksey Nogin 2001-06-10 14:15:59 UTC

No, such Mozilla pref would not be the right thing IMHO. What I want is to
change behaviour of /usr/bin/mozilla, not of Mozilla. I.e. I want:

/usr/bin/mozilla -remote openurl(URL)            => URL opened in a current window
/usr/bin/mozilla -remote openurl(URL,new-window) => URL opened in a new window
/usr/bin/mozilla URL                             => URL opened in a new window
(or current/new depending on some outside preference)

Comment 6 Aleksey Nogin 2001-08-20 16:25:07 UTC

OK, simplier request - can you make /usr/bin/mozilla a %config file (or even
%config(noreplace) ) so that people like me can mess with it without having to
do something about it at each upgrade to latest nightly? Thanks!

Comment 7 Christopher Aillon 2005-03-31 07:59:23 UTC

Default browser is now firefox, and this is fixed there.  See bug 138789. 
Wontfix for this one.