Bug#590886: Debian Sensible Browser always opens a new window

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 590886 gnome-control-center
tag 590886 + wontfix
thanks

Le jeudi 29 juillet 2010 à 17:09 -0400, Luca Capello a écrit :
> As the title suggests, there is no way to configure Debian Sensible Browser to
> open a link in a new tab, since in System -> Preferred Applications -> Web
> Browser options are grayed out.
> 
> I do not think there is a possible solution to this bug, given that at least
> the browsers installed in the standard desktop (Epiphany and Iceweasel) use
> different switches for opening links in new tab (--new-tab and -new-tab,
> respectively).
> 
> I assume "Debian Sensible Browser" means using sensible-browser, thus maybe
> should this bug re-assigned to sensible-utils (which ships sensible-browser)?
> Or, better, add a --new-tab option to xdg-open and switch to it (and as well
> re-assign this bug to xdg-utils)?

It is not possible to fix this in sensible-browser or in xdg-utils
without having them look at which browser they are starting - which they
don’t know, since they only start gnome-www-browser, which in turn is an
alternative.

Fixing this would mean replace all gnome-www-browser alternatives by
scripts which can interpret the same command-line options. I don’t think
the gain is worth the added complexity. If you want to open links in a
new tab, you can select as well the application in which you want them
to be opened.

Cheers,
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