Thanks again for all your help Little Girl.
Whatever I tried, "execute" opens a new tab. Also tried two different web-browsers ( Librewolf and Wexond), same behavior.
I then realized I might as well click the browser's refresh button in stead of the Geany execute/run, they are only inches apart.That button refreshes in the same tab..
But my plan was to not having to click any button at all while writing. Saving is already auto. For the moment I added a Firefox add-on "Tab reloader", recommended by Mozilla. It simply refreshes the tab every 10 seconds. Those 10 seconds is my choice, it could also be set much slower, like e.g. Once every century... :)
In the Geany prefs I always had "/opt/firefox/firefox" for the browser. Changing that to "Firefox" worked (surprisingly) but made no difference in the browser's behavior.
I give up for now. I can live with the "Tab reloader" solution for the moment. Let's hope someone competent can reincarnate the Web helper plugin or build a new html preview for Geany.
Thanks again! Bert
------- Original Message ------- Op zondag 24 juli 2022 om 03:49 schreef Little Girl littlergirl@gmail.com:
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.
-- Little Girl
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