From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix bug with new firefox Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:55:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83k2yzqinb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pp8r5nlw.fsf@msstf091.ucc.ie> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425326137 13561 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2015 19:55:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 19:55:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Amann Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 02 20:55:29 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YSWR6-0007tT-Sv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:55:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSWR1-0000RW-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48569) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSWQw-0000LF-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSWQt-0008CR-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:55:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:42702) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSWQt-0008CE-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NKL00500OBODN00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:55:13 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NKL00560OO0D330@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:55:13 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87pp8r5nlw.fsf@msstf091.ucc.ie> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183584 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Amann > 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?