Iceweasel - and Tabs - [Is NOT Solved] (Page 1 of 2)

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Last edited by winotree (2010-07-20 02:10:30)

I understood 2 situations:

1- You want two initial tabs to be open, one with gmail.com loaded and the other with some /usr/home/......./file.htlm (or something else, just 2 examples) ?

2- You have a initial tab with some links you got saved and you want to click one and open it in another tab, not in the present one ?

Both situations are very easy to solve...

have you tried the --new-tab flag?
don't have firefox or iceweasel at the mo but im pretty sure theres the command in the man page.

you may need a small shell script to the effect:

if pgrep iceweazel > /dev/null; then #check if iceweasel is running
  iceweasel --new-tab $1                  #if so open in new tab of existing window
else
  iceweasel                                       #else start new process
  sleep 2                                           #may need a delay, don't know, fiddle
  iceweasel --new-tab $1
fi

pretty psuedo codish, don't know what iceweasel processes are named (iceweasel-bin ?) or the exact name of the flag or whether that sleep is needed, you get the idea tho.

You know what we need!  A "banging head against the wall smilie" - man page - why didn't I think of that --- I check the man pages for 'everything' --- obviously NOT!

With "iceweasel.txt" I now have 101 man pages in ~/Documents/Manuals

       -new-tab URL
              Open URL in a new tab in an already running Iceweasel process.

But that is "an already running Iceweasel process" but at least I'm getting closer.

Interesting, in my local homepage I have a link:

<a href="http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/" target="tab3">

I tried 'target="new-tab"' and it didn't work.  I have up to - target="tab12" in the page.

target="new-tab" works, it opens a second site in a new tab.  If I select yet another link, it re-uses the second tab - that's why the tab1, tab2, tab3 ... tab12 

That script looks interesting but how would I run it by pointing a mouse to a link in an email?

im perhaps misunderstanding, i thought you had a separate email client and you wanted to open that up in a separate tab of IW, if thats the case depends on the client, you just need to change the command for opening emails to point to the script rather than 'iceweasel'.

but this

seems to suggest reading emails in IW, although im slightly confused how have you got control over links in emails in an online email client and also i thought the old way was 'target="_blank"
and the new way was css, ie
a {
    target-name: new;
    target-new: tab;
}

ok, well save the script as something

#! /bin/bash
if pgrep iceweazel > /dev/null; then #check if iceweasel is running
  iceweasel --new-tab $1                  #if so open in new tab of existing window
else
  iceweasel                                       #else start new process
  sleep 2                                           #may need a delay, don't know, fiddle
  iceweasel --new-tab $1
fi

in a terminal 'chmod +x /your/script'
in your email client find the web browser option or whatever, at the moment thats iceweasel, change that to point to this script.
you will need to check a few things first, like the name of the iceweasel process (firefox is firefox-bin afaik, htop should tell you anyway) also check the man page for the correct flag name, also change the sleep setting if you need/want.
save everything and you should be ready to go, if iceweasel is running youll just get a new tab, if its not, it'll open with your home page and a tab with the link in.

@johnraff - Even if you can make Firefox open a new tab for application links, it only would work when its already open. It seems Sector wants Firefox to always open with his homepage in a tab.

I saved it in ~/bin/icew and I run it in terminal
1. it immediately opens iceweasel - two seconds later it opens another iceweasel - both on my homepage.

In Claws:

Let me close this and click on a link in claws.

EDIT:  it only opens what I click on, no homepage. 

Last edited by Sector11 (2010-07-21 21:30:22)

2 things

what anonymous said

2nd i cant spell

pgrep iceweazel

Listening...

OK, what anonymous said ... but it doesn't work. 

shhhh neither can I, my best friend is my spell checker.

I never noticed.

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It opens my homepage - nothing else.  Then when close IW and try second time it opens my homepage again. Again I close it and 2 seconds later IW opens at the link I clicked on - no homepage

Go figure!

^ Alternatively one could just open the homepage after the fact.

strange, i posted yesterday, doesn't seem to have appeared.

anyway, i wrote that the iceweasel process is called firefox, so you will need to change the pgrep line to that.
also your previous post seems to suggest that iceweasel doesn't background itself, it did with me so perhaps adding & after the second iceweasel call help.

all that worked fine for me in the terminal when i tried it, if it doesn't im out of ideas.