Re: [PATCH] Add support for Conkeror in browse-url.el

[Jan D. <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Hi.

> 14 feb 2015 kl. 12:22 skrev vibhavp@gmail.com:
> 
> "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> 
>> Instead of adding browsers to browse-url.el, we should encourage
>> people to set up their preferred browser as system default, and then
>> use browse-url-xdg-open, browse-url-default-windows-browser or
>> browse-url-default-macosx-browser.
> 
> browse-url.el has the ability to load web pages in a new tab, instead of
> a new window. Since there is no universal standard for opening web pages
> in a browser, every browser does that in its own way (Firefox uses the
> -remote/-new-tab arguments, chromium always opens the URL in a new
> tab). Since xdg-open's job is just to provide default applications, the
> "responsibility" falls on emacs itself.

No, it is not for Emacs to say if a link should open in a new tab or window.  That is a setting in the browser.  Most browsers have something like "Open new links in tabs" that you can enable.

	Jan D.