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10.3.32 Firefox 1.5: The URL Open Command
With Firefox 1.5, the method for applications to open a Firefox instance or window has
changed. The new method was already partly available in former versions where the
behavior was implemented in the wrapper script.
If your application does not use mozilla-xremote-client or firefox
-remote, you do not need to change anything. Otherwise the new command to open
a URL is firefox url and it does not matter whether Firefox is already running or
not. If it is already running, it follows the preference configured in Open links from
other applications in.
From the command line, you can influence the behavior by using firefox
-new-window url or firefox -new-tab url.
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