[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I tested on OSX with a current version of FF and it didn't work. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyth

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

R. David Murray added the comment: Sorry, I have no idea where that issue number came from. The correct issue is #812089. I just retested, and despite -remote being currently undocumented, it works on my windows VM with a current (3.6) version of firefox, and that the actions (eg: new-windo

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

Shashwat Anand added the comment: I searched for proxy+firefox on roundup and the only two issue I got was issue 8238 and issue 1160328. None of them seems related to webbrowser. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I'm closing this issue: 1) webbrowser.get("firefox") currently works 2) firefox on OSX doesn't provide hooks to open tabs instead of windows (neither through the command line nor though AppleScript) which means that the 'new' and 'autoraise' options of webb

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

Shashwat Anand added the comment: 16:05:57 l0nwlf-MBP:/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS$ ./firefox-bin 'http://www.google.com' says firefox is already running as ff is open. After we quit ff, 16:09:05 l0nwlf-MBP:/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS$ ./firefox-bin -remote 'http://www

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: BTW. The firebox-bin binary in Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS does not support the command-line arguments that Firefox on Linux supports. That is, the following command does not work: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -remote 'openURL("http:/

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: R. David Murray: the issue you refer to isn't the one you intend to link to, it is related to proxy settings and doesn't contain a patch related to firefox. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

R. David Murray added the comment: issue 8238 notes the problem with autoraise and new on windows. I believe when I looked at that issue that I confirmed that the syntax webbrowser uses on Linux to support those options works on windows with the current firefox, even though I couldn't find t

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I've ported the change to 3.2 as well. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Firefox doesn't seem to support a full scripting api, which makes opening tabs and windows harder. I've committed an alternate version of your patch in r80698: This uses osascript to open the url instead of the open command. I've also added a registration f

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

Changes by Ned Deily : -- assignee: -> ronaldoussoren components: +Macintosh nosy: +ronaldoussoren ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue7192] webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox

New submission from Andrew Dalke : I have Firefox and Safari installed on my Mac. Safari is the default. I wanted to try out Crunchy (http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/). It's developed under Firefox and does not work under Safari. I tried. ;) It starts the web browser with the following.