Hey there,
Bert Vercauteren via Users wrote:
Thanks again. Despite your elaborate answer, I was not able to solve this. I stopped all add-ons and started different setup settings. Whatever I try Geany "Execute" keeps forcing FF to open the file in-a-new-tab.
That's maddening and it shouldn't be happening.
My Firefox version is 102.01 (64 bits). Could the FF version play a role? I would very much love to get this working, as it is so much simpler than other solutions, tho I will definitely try Emil's proposal if we can't get this running.
I doubt it's a version thing. I was running a very outdated copy of Ubuntu MATE as my operating system for the past several years until recently. That had an older version of Geany and Firefox in it (I don't remember the versions). The behavior as I've described it is how it's always worked for me.
I now have this setup and nothing has changed: * Kubuntu 22.04 LTS * Firefox 102.0.1 (64-bit) * Geany 1.38
The Ubuntu team even switched to a Snap version of Firefox instead of one that's installed through the package manager and that didn't make any difference.
Just out of curiosity, what do you have in Geany's "Browser" field in Edit -- Preferences -- Tools? Mine just says Firefox with no quotes around it, no additional percents, dashes, or other letters or characters, etc. If yours has anything but just Firefox, maybe that's causing it.
A couple of other things to try:
* Create a new user in your operating system and try using Geany's "Execute" button as that user to see if the issue persists or vanishes.
* Create a virtual machine and try using Geany's "Execute" button in it to see if the issue persists or vanishes.
If either or both of those work, it's likely some sort of configuration somewhere in your current environment. I'm not sure exactly how one would go about gently and elegantly chasing it down from there, but it would be a start.