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BetterRed · 03-22-2023, 08:03 PM

When using calibre and similar applications that routinely interact with the web I am often irritated by the fact that they make use of the primary instance of the default web browser.

So, I was wondering if it would be feasible to add a preference to calibre (checkbox setting default off) that would have it create a fresh instance of the default browser at start up (i.e. do the equivalent of a Shift+click on a Windows taskbar icon) and use that for all web links (http://, https://, etc) - e.g. starting the server, Identifier links, web links on comments and similar. When calibre terminates it would close the browser instance it created at start-up.

Known con: secondary instances of Firefox don't get pinned tabs

BR

Bugger: I always forget the "Indifferent" option.

03-22-2023, 08:03 PM	#1
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,820 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Suggestion - calibre to get its own browser instance When using calibre and similar applications that routinely interact with the web I am often irritated by the fact that they make use of the primary instance of the default web browser. So, I was wondering if it would be feasible to add a preference to calibre (checkbox setting default off) that would have it create a fresh instance of the default browser at start up (i.e. do the equivalent of a Shift+click on a Windows taskbar icon) and use that for all web links (http://, https://, etc) - e.g. starting the server, Identifier links, web links on comments and similar. When calibre terminates it would close the browser instance it created at start-up. Known con: secondary instances of Firefox don't get pinned tabs BR Bugger: I always forget the "Indifferent" option. Last edited by BetterRed; 03-22-2023 at 08:19 PM.