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So when I right-click on a URL I get a pop-up menu that includes, among other options,
- Open (as though I'd left-clicked),
- Open in new page,
- Open in background page (my favourite when I'm on a dialup connection, and pretty darned useful the rest of the time),
- Open in new window (tabbed vs. separate windows on the desktop; nice to have the option), and
- Open in background window.
I want "Open in the copy of this browser running on that machine over there, instead of on this computer."
Grant me this power[*], and I promise to use it only for good.
(I'm waaaay behind on my LJ friends page, and I've got a bunch of windows open showing through "?skip=950" as of a couple of days ago, and I just did something in the "restart the computer for these changes to take effect" category. If I close the windows, what I was about to read will have scrolled off past the limits of the friends-page view. So I'm skimming through quickly, and spotting things I want to come back to (comments I want to read, cut tags, potentially interesting pages folks have linked to), and opening them in the background so that when I quit the browser I can tell it "restart where I left off" the next time I fire it up, and see all of those, but I'm not absolutely certain that quitting it now and doing that after a reboot will get me the same list of friends'-entries that I'm seeing now. It might, but I'm not sure. If I could right-click to easily open these windows on the computer a little less than two meters to the right of the one I'm reading on, which isn't due for a reboot tonight, that would be even better. And last night when I was too tired to sit up in the office so I Googled from bed for an answer to a problem, it would have been nice to redirect the answer I found to the screen of the machine I'd be editing the registry of later. I guess I want my house to act like One Huge Multi-User/Multi-Session/Multiple-Operating-System Computer [That Reads My Mind And Does What I Mean].)
[*] And reminding me that if I used an open source browser I wouldn't need anyone else to grant me this ... doesn't count. I already have too many projects to get around to as it is, including finding source for the ancient MUA that I use (about the only one that I can stand) and hacking MIME support into it, writing a multiple-voice ABC viewer for PalmOS, getting a print server running again, repairing or replacing my mother's computer, practicing my bowing, and developing a whole big pile o' Tri-X, TMZ, and HIE. On the other hand, if someone tells me that a plug-in already exists for Firfox that does this, I may well take that as the final incentive to switch. While I still prefer Opera, more and more of the objective reasons to use it are showing up as features or extensions in Firefox.
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I know what you mean, especially in terms of Firehamster- there's lots of fixes I'd like to make to it (not least stopping the stupid heap of crap from crashing, hanging, and being slow as hell), but things like extensions, which I'd understood were meant to be quite simple, I have found no info on making besides the fact that they're apparently done in a combination of Javascript and XML (hammer technology* if ever there was some).
ANYWAY. Back on the subject, If you used Firehamster AND had the ability to make it produce menu entries that called scripts (surely possible, I just don't know how), I expect you could make a script using rsh or ssh to just call "firehamster http://thispage" on the remote computer with the correct $DISPLAY variable set (I think this is done automatically if you're logged in as the correct user). Alternatively, isn't "xon" pretty much like that? But the point is that on Debian at least, calling Firehamster from the command line loads specified pages into an existing copy if there is one. If not, there's "remote-control" arguments to do so.
Sorry I've no suggestions for an Opera approach, I've never used it myself, but perhaps it'd be just as possible?
(*-as in "if all you have is a hammer...")
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... but I mostly only run Opera on one Linux box, plus three Windows machines and a Mac. That's something Windows boxes are good for: running web browsers and telnet clients (to get shells on all the Linux machines downstairs, of course). ;-) So this command being between two Linux machines will be an unusual case (in my house). There'll usually be Windows on one end or the other. Though I did wish I could bounce a web page from the bedroom Linux machine to the iMac, night before last.
Anyhow, I'm probably SOL regarding the Mac (until I get my hands on one that'll comfortably run OS X, anyhow (I'm currently running OS 8.6 and OS 9)), but I wonder what Windows has in the RPC department. And how it wants to handle authentication.
Argh. That reminds me that I'm having trouble getting Win98 to talk to my Samba server (which is also serving Appleshare and NFS, of course, because I never got around to installing and configuring the Andrew File System). The WinNT machine can connect. The Win95 machine could connect until it ate itself and got moved to the repair pile. The Win2K machine can connect. It's just Win98 that doesn't want to. And I could swear I've solved this problem before and should have notes about it somewhere, but damned if I can figure out where said notes would be.
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Basic operation for the server would be, listen on some obscure port, lines read from the socket would be URLs to display; display them by running
opera --whatevertheremotecontrolargumentis URLAnd then close the connection and go back to listening for connections. It'd probably be wise to add some sort of basic authentication though, like have the first line as a sanity check and the second line give a password or somesuch, and then only the *third* line be the URL for instance. And as some stupid sites insist on using whitespace in URLs (eg, Slashdot who should know better), you might want to escape the line you read before running the command. Perl can do that easily enough, but if using socket/netcat, you'd want to pass it through sed (yes that's IIRC available on Windows too) or something.
Hope this has given you some more ideas! Whether or not Opera is up to the task, Windows use shouldn't get in the way too much of getting such a thing done.
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Possible way to get SWF
Don't think you'd need to install it as root, but people have complained about its compilation being bad (I don't remember having any problems myself). Also, you might not want to install it as some people might consider it to be of dubious legality, but I think that's mostly down to their making it possible to use Windows codecs outside their intended environment; there's certainly no suggestion of malware.