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preventing other apps from opening up new firefox tabs (lemy.lol)
submitted 2 weeks ago by ngn@lemy.lol to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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is there a way to prevent all the other apps on the system from opening up new tabs/windows in firefox?

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[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago

You can set some browser-unrelated program or script as your desktop environment's default browser, for example I wrote a Zsh script that creates a KDE dialog and asks me to copy the URL to the clipboard.

I'm not currently at my PC, but if you want it I can paste it in a comment here when I get to it - it shouldn't be too hard to translate it to Bash, either.

Other than that? /usr/bin/true is a pretty nice default browser for applications to start without your consent, very minimal and lightweight.

[-] vort3@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Could you please share the script?

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Here it is:

#!/usr/bin/zsh

nl=$'\n'
dnl=$'\n\n'

url=$1
msgcontent=$url; shift
argi=1
for arg ($@); do
    argi=$(($argi + 1))
    msgcontent=${msgcontent}${nl}Argument\ ${argi}': '${arg}
done

title="${0:A}"
msg="An application attempted to open a web page:${dnl}\"${msgcontent}\"${dnl}Copy the URL to clipboard?"

kdialog --title $title --yesno $msg
answer=$?

if [[ $answer = 0 ]]; then wl-copy $url; fi

If you want to translate it to Bash, keep in mind that arrays behave differently between the two shells, and syntax like for arg ($@); do would likely misbehave or not work at all.

Also, there's an issue where some applications do something weird, and the URL seems to be a zero-length argument. I have absolutely no idea what's up with that.

[-] vort3@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks!

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Other apps than what?

You can start Firefox without the --no-remote flag. And it would allow external processes to open links.

[-] ngn@lemy.lol 1 points 2 weeks ago

that was what i was looking for, thank you

[-] OatPotato@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

I set Junction as my default browser, this software has been a game changer for me. https://apps.gnome.org/fr/Junction/

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