Thanks Nick,


> Most (?) browsers have a remote URL capability: you can send a URL to an
> already running instance and it will just open it, without going through
> the overhead of creating another instance.

For me it seems strange this behaviour.

When I have firefox already open, it creates another tab for the URL and
does not open a new firefox instance.

Daniel

2010/2/26 Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>

> [I had sent a similar answer to Henri-Paul, but for some reason, my reply
> never hit the list - I've had problem posting to the list in the past
> couple of days. I have an outstanding query to the list administrators,
> but I haven't heard anything back. If you do receive this personally,
> you might want to check the list and if it does not make it within the
> next day or so, you might want to just post it there for posterity.]
>
> Daniel Martins <danielemc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > You solved for me a quite annoying issue related to org that I could not
> solve!
> >
> > For those who use firefox these two lines become:
> >
> > (setq browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-generic))
> > (setq browse-url-generic-program "firefox")
> >
> > Simply copy and paste it!!
> >
>
> Daniel,
>
> The problem with this solution is that it creates a new instance
> of the browser every time you click a link:
>
>
> ,----
> | browse-url-generic is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> | `browse-url.el'.
> |
> | (browse-url-generic URL &optional NEW-WINDOW)
> |
> | Ask the WWW browser defined by `browse-url-generic-program' to load URL.
> | Default to the URL around or before point.  A fresh copy of the
> | browser is started up in a new process with possible additional arguments
> | `browse-url-generic-args'.  This is appropriate for browsers which
> | don't offer a form of remote control.
> `----
>
> Most (?) browsers have a remote URL capability: you can send a URL to an
> already running instance and it will just open it, without going through
> the overhead of creating another instance.
>
> For firefox, I do the following:
>
> ,----
> | (defun browse-url-firefox (url &optional new-window)
> |   (shell-command (concat "firefox-xremote-client" " " "\"" url "\"")))
> |
> | (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-firefox)
> `----
>
> with the following firefox-xremote-client script somewhere in my path:
>
> ,----
> | #! /bin/bash
> |
> | firefox --remote "openURL($1)"
> `----
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
>
>