Firefox startup behaviour

[Jonathan Berry]

On 2/10/06, William John Murray <W.J.Murray at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>  There is a minor, but annoying, behaviour with the firefox launching
> behaviour in FC5T2. If I click on a link, e.g. in an email, firefox
> is launched. Good. If I click on a second link it is not launched again,
> but instead a new tab is opened. Fine.
>    However, if the original window is on a different workspace, then I
> get no feedback that anything has happened.
>
>   This has obviously been worked on:  If there are two existing firefox
> sessions the one in the current workspace is used. IF that is iconised
> it is opened.
>   But can we go one step further, and open a new window if the existing
> one is off workspace?

This should be controlled by Firefox.  There is a setting in Firefox
that controls where new links are opened. 
Edit->Preferences->Tabs->"Open links from other applications in:"  I
would not expect that Firefox can know what workspace it is on and if
that is not the current workspace.

Jonathan