[CLUE-Tech] Headless Mozilla

[Angelo Bertolli]

I'd like for Mozilla to be loaded in the background, without a window.  
I'd like to keep it in memory, even after I've closed all the other windows.

I don't use Firefox, because I don't necessarily want EVERY new link 
opened up in a new tab.  I like the idea of me using middle click opens 
new tabs.  Well Mozilla suite can do this, but the only way Firefox is 
going to be able to do this is by somehow convincing the window manager 
only to use [-remote "openURL($@ ,new-tab)"] when there is a 
middle-click on a link.  And they won't do that because it will be 
specific to Firefox and no other browser.

Angelo

>I must be missing something in this (IMHO) overly complex thread. I
>just do the following:
>
>1. I start Firefox (same principle with Mozilla) in the startup script
>for my window manager (xfce). I do have to wait a few seconds for
>Firefox to claim the first desktop.
>
>2. I set Sylpheed (you could do the same for Thunderbird, but I don't
>know what the commands are) to invoke the following script. Thus,
>whenever I open a url in Sylpheed, a new tab is opened in my running
>Firefox instance.
>
>--- cut here
>#!/bin/sh
>
>MOZ_NAME=firefox
>MOZ_PATH="/usr/bin"
>MOZ_EXE="$MOZ_PATH/$MOZ_NAME"
>
># Seems like pidof resides in /sbin on some boxes
># Modifying the PATH to reflect that
>PATH="/sbin:${PATH}"
>
>if [ -z "`pidof $MOZ_NAME-bin`" ]; then
>        # No browser running
>        ${MOZ_EXE} $@
>else
>        # browser already running - open a new tab
>        ${MOZ_EXE} -remote "openURL($@ ,new-tab)"
>fi
>~
>
>-- end of script
>
>HTH
>
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