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Open With add-on for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/open-with/
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[question] How (if possible) to open a link in a **running** Firefox (with a certain profile)? #199

Open cipriancraciun opened 6 years ago

cipriancraciun commented 6 years ago

[As the subject says, this is a question, but I think it will be useful for many users of this plugin.]

My question is how to open a link in an existing running Firefox instance (with a different profile)?

(The internet is full of suggestions to use the -remote but this stopped working some time ago...)

Moreover I'm trying to achieve this from a program launched by the OpenWith plugin, as the program I'm having in mind "transforms" the URL somewhat.

darktrojan commented 6 years ago

That depends how the Firefox instance was started. If it was run with -no-remote, then you can't send a link to it. Otherwise, just run Firefox again with the URL.

(I can't believe it's 2018 and Firefox still works like this.)

cipriancraciun commented 6 years ago

The Firefox process is initially started as:

firefox -profile /.../path -new-instance -new-window http://.../

Then when opening a new URL Firefox is called as:

firefox -profile /.../path -new-window http://.../

However, only the first started instance actually succeeds in opening the URL, for all others I get the usual Firefox process is already running error...

In any case, as I control the script I can invoke Firefox with any arguments necessary.

(P.S.: I can't also believe that in 2018 Firefox still hasn't solved this issue... But I still hope there is some "obscure" way to work around it...)