Closed Bug 227658 Opened 21 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Firefox -remote openurl($url, new-tab) doesn't work if both FF and Thunderbird are running.

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 226071

People

(Reporter: halcanary, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

MozillaFirebird -remote openurl($url, new-tab) doesn't work if both firebird and
thunderbird are running.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start firebird 0.7.
2. start thunerbird 0.4.
3. on a command line, try 
/usr/local/MozillaFirebird/MozillaFirebird -remote "openurl(about:, new-tab)"
Actual Results:  
I get the 'Failed to send command.' error.


Expected Results:  
open a new tab in firebird.
I have also observed this same problem with Mozilla's -remote command.
See also bug #227486
mozilla -remote "openurl(http://www.mozilla.org),new-tab"

never opens a new tab. but new windows.

Robert
Is this really a TB bug?  If clicking the link is causing the page to open in 
FF, then wouldn't the problem be that FF is not parsing the args correctly?
(Even if this *is* TB's problem, I can't imagine it's a "build config" bug.)

Is 'new-tab' in fact a supported option?  If FF is already open, and the command 
line    FF -remote "openurl(about:, new-tab)"   is entered from a shell, is 
there a new tab opened then?  (I can't tell, don't have Linux.)
Summary: MozillaFirebird -remote openurl($url, new-tab) doesn't work if both firebird and thunderbird are running. → Firefox -remote openurl($url, new-tab) doesn't work if both FF and Thunderbird are running.
I was just going to file a bug on FreeBSD for the same thing.  I'm using
Thunderbird 0.9 and Firefox 1.0 on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, and I get:

Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error

When trying to use firefox -remote.  BTW, new-window works correctly, though.
QA Contact: build
QA Contact: build → build-config
Is anyone still having problems with this with the latest version of Thunderbird (2.0.0.14)? If no response, then I'll close as WFM given the age of this bug and not having seen anything related to this.
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Whiteboard: CLOSEME 2008-05-29
(In reply to comment #6)
> Is anyone still having problems with this with the latest version of
> Thunderbird (2.0.0.14)? If no response, then I'll close as WFM given the age of
> this bug and not having seen anything related to this.
> 
A bit of digging and this is actually a duplicate of bug 226071.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: CLOSEME 2008-05-29
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