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Currently, the external browser integration module always attempts to reuse an already opened browser window. There is feedback from users indicating that this is not always desirable, e.g.: - When testing web applications, I want to open a new window so that the session is cleared - Reusing the same window will override the document previously opened in this window, which is not desirable. This could potentially be configurable, when e.g. for Mozilla, we could have options 1/ reuse window, 2/ open new window, 3/ open new tab.
This is already configurable, e.g. set your Mozilla command to mozilla -remote "openURL({URL},new-tab)" Under GNOME, you can also run gnome-moz-remote --newwin {URL} but there seems to be no option to create a new tab. gnome-open also opens URLs, but does not seem to have any useful options.
Option -remote does not work in Windows. But the problem is more serious because NB (4.0RC2) apparently _ignores_ the browser settings. I changed the path and arguments of Mozilla in Options window, but they're completely ignored.