Re: Fix bug with new firefox

[Andreas Amann]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Andreas Amann <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:13:31 +0000
>> 
>> firefox 36.0 removed the "-remote" command line option, see
>> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0/releasenotes/
>> 
>> Unfortunately this breaks "browse-url-firefox" which depends on it. To
>> fix this, please apply the patch below.  I also put the patch on github
>> https://github.com/andram/emacs/commit/fd19dadba178f781117dfe524de834f337cbb1a6
>> not sure which is more convenient for devs, as I am not a regular
>> contributor.
>> 
>> Comment of patch: Patch now uses "--new-tab" and "--new-window" command
>> line args, which are supported since a long time.  This makes the
>> sentinel redundant.  It should in theory also work on MS-Windows, and
>> even improve the situation in that links can now also be opened in a new
>> tab if desired. However, I only tested the patch on linux.
>
> In which version of Firefox were these two options introduced?

Not sure.  I see them first mentioned in the release notes for Firefox
2.0 from 2006:
http://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/
At that point "-remote" was deprecated. 

However, back then they were spelled with one hyphen, i.e. "-new-tab"
and "-new-window".  I don't know, since when the double-hyphen version
are working.  To be on the save side, it is probably better to use
single-hyphen "-new-tab" and "-new-window"?