[Conkeror] [QUERY] Getting from Emacs to Conkeror

[Joe Fineman]

Thank you, Sven Bretfeld and Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, for your efforts.
However, I am not a computer professional, and I am afraid that, as
often happens when I post queries, I am out of my depth.  In
particular, I think you may have missed my statement that I am using
the Firefox version of Conkeror, which (I have read) is no longer
being maintained.  I would like to install the standalone version, but
I suspect I would need a lot of help; I only barely managed with the
Firefox version, and the new version (to judge from the posted
patches) is written in a language I do not even know the name of.

Is there any documentation that might be helpful in my situation?

> From: Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld at gmx.ch>

> Joe Fineman <joe_f at verizon.net> writes:

> > I use Conkeror (the old one, parasitic on Firefox) under Windows
> > XP with Firefox as the default browser.  If I request a page using
> > M-x browse-url, it indeed brings up that page under Conkeror, but
> > (usually) it does not automatically switch to the browser window;
> > it is an extra step to get there with alt-tab.  When a plain
> > Firefox window is active, it (usually) does make the switch.  Is
> > there some way to get that behavior with Conkeror?

> I have the same behavior with the xulrunner-based version under
> Debian. Would be nice to have that annoying problem solved. Here is
> how I set Conkeror as standard browser for Emacs:

> (setq 
>  browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
>  browse-url-generic-program "~/bin/conkeror/conkeror")

> (setq gnus-button-url 'browse-url-generic
>     browse-url-generic-program "~/bin/conkeror/conkeror"
>        browse-url-browser-function gnus-button-url)

I cannot imitate this, because I cannot find a conkeror directory
anywhere on my system.  I suppose it must have concealed itself
somewhere within Firefox.

> From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy at jeremyms.com>
> To: Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld at gmx.ch>

> I just checked in a change that I believe should fix this problem.
> Please let me know if it is resolved.

I presume that that will not be helpful in my case.

Thank you for your patience.
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---  Joe Fineman    joe_f at verizon.net

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