Sending signals to running firefox

[Rashkae]

Dieter Schicker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to send signals to a running firefox instance from
> another process (e.g. from a bash or perl script) or do I have to write
> my own XPCOM-Component?
> All I want to do is to tell firefox to show a different website let's
> say every minute or so. As you can imagine I need this functionality for
> a kiosk pc.
> 

Firefox will send itself a signal from the executable,, check it out.. 
Open firefox, then from a terminal window, type firefox http://some-site

On my system,, the existing firefox session on my current X Session will 
open a tab to the new site, (I think you can configure the tab behaviour 
in Options.)