This is Debian 9 Stretch speaking, #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u4 (2018-08-21)
, with a new, portable installation of Firefox 62.0 run from /opt
with
$ which firefox
/opt/firefox/firefox
My problem is that, even though the command
$ firefox
does launch and run a firefox instance, a subsequent command
$ firefox any.kind/of/url
fails with the famous window message
Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
whereas it used to just open a new tab for the provided url in the existing, running session.
The options --new-tab
, --new-window
or --no-remote
do not help. And I have checked according to this post, that
$ echo $MOZ_NO_REMOTE
0
.. which I think should mean that my desired behaviour is the expected behaviour. (Note that it is not clear to me what is the init
file they refer to in this post).
As (I-think-)related problems:
- clicking a link in a
.pdf
file opened withevince
also fails with the same error message. - cliking a link in an e-mail viewed in thunderbird also fails with the same error message.
Am I missing anything here?
How do I add a new tab to the running browser session from the command line?
Any way to solve / get around this problem?
firefox
using the same user in the same X session?--new-tab
: it says an already running copy to open the specified URL in a new tab. That's 60.2.0esr (amd64) from the official repo (now as a security update).