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heyandy889
October 10th, 2010, 11:30 PM
Hi, all. :)

I made a keyboard shortcut to Firefox. Yay! My question is this; can I change the shortcut so that it just leads me to an already open window of Firefox? Currently, the keyboard shortcut will open a new instance of Firefox, even if I already have Firefox open.

I used System-Preferences-Keyboard Shortcuts, and then clicked "Add." I gave the keyboard shortcut a name, and gave it the command "firefox."

Any help and information would be appreciated; thank you!

By the way, when I right clicked on Firefox and chose "Properties," the Properties window told me that the command for Firefox was "firefox %u". That kept sending me to www.%u.com (http://www.%u.com), a page that doesn't exist. Does anyone know why that happens?

lovinglinux
October 10th, 2010, 11:53 PM
Try this:


firefox -new-tab http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1592545

heyandy889
October 11th, 2010, 12:14 AM
You are the man. :)

lovinglinux
October 11th, 2010, 12:20 AM
You are the man. :)

You are welcome :)