Bluefish

Unable to open Firefox 1.5 from the External Browsers bar

Asked by andrew.46

Hi,

 I am running Bluefish 1.0.5 using Xubuntu 6.06 with Xfce 4.3.90.2 and I am unable to preview HTML files (with Firefox 1.5.0.9 using the External / Browsers / Firefox option or by using the 'View in Browser' button.

 The command 'which firefox' shows me '/usr/bin/firefox' and the full line in the External Programs has been changed by me to:

/usr/bin/firefox %s&

 Despite this, which I believe to be a correct setup, a browser window does not open up. There is a small amount of disk activity but nothing more.

 I would be grateful for any help with this problem in what has otherwise been extremely pleasurable meeting with this amazing software.

               Thanks for your trouble,

                            Andrew

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andrew.46 (andrew.46-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Hi,

 A slight addition:

 Synaptic reports the version of Firefox as:

1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.9-Oubuntu0.6.06

 Not sure if this makes things any clearer :-)

                    Andrew

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andrew.46 (andrew.46-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Hi again,

 So, just for the sake of completeness: Synaptic reports my version of Bluefish as:

1.0.5-2~dapper1

         Cheers,

                 Andrew

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Best Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#3

Consider either of these commands:
firefox -new-window "%s" &
firefox -new-tab "%s" &

Firefox 1.5 and above switched the remote command line and you may need to explicitly declare your intention. I placed the file/URL in quotes in the above example to hide some characters from being interpreted by the shell at startup.

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andrew.46 (andrew.46-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

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andrew.46 (andrew.46-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

Hi Curtis,

 Thank you very much for your time and trouble. The first command:

firefox -new-window "%s" &

 worked flawlessly for me.

            Thanks!!

                Andrew

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Zed (zaheer420) said : 		#6

Hi
I have the very same problem the only difference is I'm using Fedora 9. I've tried all the commands above but no success. Any suggestion

Thanks in advance
Zed

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snow owl (marktulsaok) said : 		#7

Answer for Bluefish:
To make the VIEW IN BROWSER icon open the Firefox browser follow these steps:

1) go to applications, then open "terminal" or "command line."

2) in command line type: (which firefox)
      B) copy down the answer

3) in bluefish go to: edit / preferences / external programs
      A) now, under in the space under label, type firefox on the top line of browsers
      B) put the answer in the space under "command" (in most cases: /usr/bin/firefox )

4) after "/usr/bin/firefox" enter this: -new-window
      A) this causes a new window to open
         example: /usr/bin/firefox -new-window

5) next add this: %s&
      A) this makes the browser open the current file your working on
         example: /usr/bin/firefox -new-window %s&

*note: firefox must be the first browser listed for this to work

Have a great day!
Mark

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leo_barros (nickolback) said : 		#8

Thanks, man. I was wanting to install the Adobe suite, but now I will test more bluefish