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Re: Making browse-url-firefox more robust?
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Felix Dietrich |
Subject: |
Re: Making browse-url-firefox more robust? |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Apr 2022 02:50:31 +0200 |
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Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> writes:
> I have set browse-url-browser-function to
> 'browse-url-firefox (and browse-url-firefox-arguments to
> '("-P" "default")) and it works reasonably fine: I see a
> link in Gnus or elsewhere in Emacs, I click on it, the link
> opens in a new tab in Firefox.
>
> Where it becomes a nuisance is when I don't need to open one
> link, but many, for example generated by some database query
> or generator function:
>
> | (dotimes (i 100)
> | (browse-url (format "https://some.url/%d" i)))
>
> In this case, each call to browse-url launches a separate,
> memory-hungry Firefox instance which tries to connect to the
> initial instance and either succeeds or fails after some
> time in which my system is essentially unusable.
If you go to <about:preferences>, what does the option “Open links in tabs
instead of new windows” under General/Tabs say? The corresponding
configuration settings under <about:config> are:
- browser.link.open_newwindow
+ 1 :: Open links in the current tab.
+ 2 :: Open links in a new window.
+ 3 :: Open links in a new tab.
- browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external
+ -1 :: Use the value browser.link.open_newwindow.
+ Other values have the same meaning as for
browser.link.open_newwindow.
For one of calls you can also use the “--new-tab” switch (starting with
a double or a single dash, does not seem to matter) to Firefox:
firefox --new-tab URL
There also is an analogous “--new-window” switch.
Links:
<https://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow>
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions#-new-tab_URL>
--
Felix Dietrich