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Support URL open for upcomming Mozilla Firefox 36

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From: Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on <at> yk.rim.or.jp>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Support URL open for upcomming Mozilla Firefox 36
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:01:13 +0900 (JST)

Hi,

Firefox 36 or later has no "-remote" command line option anymore.
browse-url-firefox of Emacs uses this "-remote" option
to open URL as new window or new tab.
We should use "--new-tab URLString" or "--new-window URLString" instead.

See
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-remote_remote_command
> This feature has been removed in Firefox 36.


Following patch uses --new-tab or --new-window command line option.
This works with Mozilla Firefox 36.0 build 10.

diff --git a/lisp/net/browse-url.el b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
index 42fb954..6ad14a2 100644
--- a/lisp/net/browse-url.el
+++ b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
@@ -1137,15 +1137,12 @@ URL in a new window."
 		 (append
 		  browse-url-firefox-arguments
 		  (if use-remote
-		      (list "-remote"
-			    (concat
-			     "openURL("
-			     url
-			     (if (browse-url-maybe-new-window new-window)
-				 (if browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab
-				     ",new-tab"
-				   ",new-window"))
-			     ")"))
+		      (list
+		       (if (browse-url-maybe-new-window new-window)
+			   (if browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab
+			       "--new-tab"
+			     "--new-window"))
+		       url)
 		    (list url))))))
     ;; If we use -remote, the process exits with status code 2 if
     ;; Firefox is not already running.  The sentinel runs firefox

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Ryo ONODERA // ryo_on <at> yk.rim.or.jp
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