{"id":259,"date":"2005-01-05T12:35:17","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T17:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=259"},"modified":"2005-01-05T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T17:35:17","slug":"firefox-as-your-default-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/259","title":{"rendered":"Firefox as your default browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to make the switch to firefox from galeon because of an extension I can&#8217;t live without, and I was having trouble when I set firefox as my default browser.  When I opened links from other applications, they weren&#8217;t popping up in new tabs despite the preferences I set.  So, I wrote a little script to correct the behavior:<\/p>\n<pre>firefox --remote \"ping()\"\nif [ $? = 0 ] ; then\n\tfirefox --remote openURL\\(\"$1\",new-tab\\)\nelse\n\tfirefox $1\nfi<\/pre>\n<p>I saved this as firefox.sh, and set my default browser to firefox.sh<\/p>\n<p>(Note, I am not using Tabbed Browser Extensions because it&#8217;s buggy, bloated, and holy fuck does it have too many options.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to make the switch to firefox from galeon because of an extension I can&#8217;t live without, and I was having trouble when I set firefox as my default browser. When I opened links from other applications, they weren&#8217;t popping up in new tabs despite the preferences I set. So, I wrote a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox as your default browser&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}