Hi. I use mozilla firefox on linux. It's a great browser, but the *nix
version has an annoying problem, that it won't let you open a new instance
from the desktop if the browser is already running.
So, in my amateurish way I wrote a little script to fix that. Here it
is......
#! /usr/bin/python
#fox_launch.py
import sys, os
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
URL = str(sys.argv[1])
else:
URL = ""
a = os.popen("ps ax |grep firefox")
detect_fox = a.read()
if detect_fox.coun t("firefox-bin") > 0:
os.popen2("fire fox -remote 'openURL(" + URL + ",new-window)'")
else:
os.popen2("fire fox " + URL)
version has an annoying problem, that it won't let you open a new instance
from the desktop if the browser is already running.
So, in my amateurish way I wrote a little script to fix that. Here it
is......
#! /usr/bin/python
#fox_launch.py
import sys, os
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
URL = str(sys.argv[1])
else:
URL = ""
a = os.popen("ps ax |grep firefox")
detect_fox = a.read()
if detect_fox.coun t("firefox-bin") > 0:
os.popen2("fire fox -remote 'openURL(" + URL + ",new-window)'")
else:
os.popen2("fire fox " + URL)