Re: Open Firefox from Emacs on MacOSX

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 15.05.2007 um 23:11 schrieb Joost Kremers:

> Stefan Nobis wrote:
>> This doesn't work. I read that Firefox on Windows doesn't support the
>> -remote option and it seems, this is the case on MacOSX, too. Is this
>> assumption right and has anyone an idea how to workaround this
>> inconvenience?
>
> not a solution, but perhaps a hint that may help in finding one: on my
> linux box, firefox (version 2.0.0.2) doesn't require the -remote  
> option
> anymore. i can type 'firefox <some_url>' in a terminal window, and the
> running instance of firefox will open <some_url> in a new tab. i'd  
> find it
> weird if that didn't work on OS X.
>

The trick on Mac OS X seems to be to use the *real* files inside the  
application bundle.

When Firefox is /Applications/Firefox.app in the HFS+ file system,  
then it has s Bourne shell script that accepts arguments like in:

	/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox http://some.where


Usually one would try

	open -a /Applications/Firefox.app [-remote] http://some.where

but this seems to fail because Apple's Launch Services take  
particularly the URL very serious and pass it to the *default*  
application for this kind of object, maybe Safari, or whatever has  
been set as default browser for the object type "URL."

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   Pete

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