Currently the newbrowser() function in the /usr/bin/netscape has the following fragment: $netscape $defsrem "xfeDoCommand(openBrowser)" 2>/dev/null && \ $netscape $defsrem "openURL($url)" 2>/dev/null This is extremely suboptimal. The correct way of doing it would be $netscape $defsrem "openURL($url,new-window)" 2>/dev/null This way we only start new netscape process once instead of twice and the new netscape window would go directly to $url instead of going to home page first.
Created attachment 8819 [details] A patch to fix /usr/bin/netscape
This is already fixed in the current netscape package. The xfeDoCommand stuff also breaks pretty badly if mozilla happens to be running on the same display.