Hi,
In Mint 17.3 KDE x64: shortcuts on the desktop/in the Application Menu/in the panel/in web pages, work as expected. But click a link from within a program UI and 2 identical tabs open.
I'm sure it isn't a Pale Moon issue. I suspect it is a configuration one, though can't for the life of me think what exactly!
Any ideas appreciated!
Links in programs open 2 tabs. Topic is solved
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Joel Cairo
Links in programs open 2 tabs.
Last edited by Joel Cairo on 2016-03-17, 18:35, edited 2 times in total.
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Andrew Gilbertson
Re: Links in programs open 2 tabs.
This thread at support.mozilla.org indicates that this problem can be caused by extensions:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/992144
So that's one possibility. You could try disabling extension one by one until the problem goes away.
Another possibility is that your /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache or /usr/share/applications/palemoon.desktop files have something weird set in them that's causing the multiple tabs (for example, the "Exec" line in palemoon.desktop might read "Exec=palemoon %u %u").
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/992144
So that's one possibility. You could try disabling extension one by one until the problem goes away.
Another possibility is that your /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache or /usr/share/applications/palemoon.desktop files have something weird set in them that's causing the multiple tabs (for example, the "Exec" line in palemoon.desktop might read "Exec=palemoon %u %u").
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Joel Cairo
Re: Links in programs open 2 tabs.
Hmm. In the KDE System Settings Default Applications - which would seem the only place such misconfiguration might be - the shortcuts working as expected - 'preferred web browser' was 'palemoon %u'. I originally added the '%u' because other, default, entries had it. Tentatively-speaking, removing it looks to have fixed it - implying the '%u' is added automatically. Having removed it, and looking at /usr/share/applications/palemoon.desktop properties I see it does indeed include '%u'. I didn't see it in mimeinfo.cache.
Putting '%u' back, in 'preferred web browser', yes links within program UIs again open 2 tabs! However 'palemoon.desktop' still shows just the one '%u' entry. At a wild guess I imagine the one calls the other and is duplicated that way? Anyway, disregarding the overall perplexing way Linux seems to work under the bonnet, problem solved!
Thanks for the pointers! Little by little I seem to be adjusting from the Windows-centric understanding of how this stuff works.
Putting '%u' back, in 'preferred web browser', yes links within program UIs again open 2 tabs! However 'palemoon.desktop' still shows just the one '%u' entry. At a wild guess I imagine the one calls the other and is duplicated that way? Anyway, disregarding the overall perplexing way Linux seems to work under the bonnet, problem solved!
Thanks for the pointers! Little by little I seem to be adjusting from the Windows-centric understanding of how this stuff works.