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?
Best Answer
Okay, got it. According to this post, the actual value of
MOZ_NO_REMOTE
environment variable does not matter, only the fact that it is defined or not. SoMOZ_NO_REMOTE=0
is suprisingly synonym ofMOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
.So after I removed this line
that somehow sneaked into my
.[bash|zsh]rc
files, and checked thatI got my good ol' behaviour back :)