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From: | Peter Dyballa |
Subject: | Re: Open Firefox from Emacs on MacOSX |
Date: | Wed, 16 May 2007 00:42:07 +0200 |
Am 15.05.2007 um 23:11 schrieb Joost Kremers:
Stefan Nobis wrote:This doesn't work. I read that Firefox on Windows doesn't support the -remote option and it seems, this is the case on MacOSX, too. Is this assumption right and has anyone an idea how to workaround this inconvenience?not a solution, but perhaps a hint that may help in finding one: on mylinux box, firefox (version 2.0.0.2) doesn't require the -remote optionanymore. i can type 'firefox <some_url>' in a terminal window, and therunning instance of firefox will open <some_url> in a new tab. i'd find itweird if that didn't work on OS X.
The trick on Mac OS X seems to be to use the *real* files inside the application bundle.
When Firefox is /Applications/Firefox.app in the HFS+ file system, then it has s Bourne shell script that accepts arguments like in:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox http://some.where Usually one would try open -a /Applications/Firefox.app [-remote] http://some.wherebut this seems to fail because Apple's Launch Services take particularly the URL very serious and pass it to the *default* application for this kind of object, maybe Safari, or whatever has been set as default browser for the object type "URL."
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