Closed Bug 353236 Opened 18 years ago Closed 16 years ago

no way to bring up command line option help

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 355889

People

(Reporter: jacob, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: dupme)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: 

running firefox.exe with any of -h, -help, --help, -?, /h, /? do not bring up help text

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open command line window
2. cd \Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
3. firefox.exe -help

Actual Results:  
nothing happens or firefox starts up

Expected Results:  
help text should be given like on linux and mac os.
bug 26761 (of which this may be a duplicate, depending on how forked commandline handling is) says there's a way, it's just horrible: "firefox -h > foo.txt" then "type foo.txt"
Component: General → Startup and Profile System
QA Contact: general → startup
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: dupme
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