73944 - Loading an URL from the commandline doesn't work with open non-browser window

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, defect)

Description

[ajbu]

Tested on Windows 2000 and 98, Mozilla 2001032804
Mozilla doesn't load the url from the commandline when Mozilla is running and 
doesn't have an open browser window in that session. This can be an http, 
mailto: or news: url
To reproduce:
1) Go to the mozilla bin directory
2) start mozilla.exe with -editor ("mozilla.exe -editor")
3) start mozilla.exe with an url ("mozilla.exe http://www.mozilla.org" 
or "mozilla.exe mailto:[e-mail]")
Expected result:
Mozilla.org opens in the browser, or a mail compose window.
Actual result:
An empty browser window.

4) Open another url from the commandline ("mozilla.exe http://www.mozilla.org")
This time the url loads. 

Closing all browsers and keeping the editor open
t) Open another url from the commandline ("mozilla.exe http://www.mozilla.org")
This time the url loads. So a browser window has to be created in the session 
to load the url from the commandline, or first run of mozilla to load the url 
from the commandline.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

hm, this WFM on winNT [2001.04.04.12] and linux [2001.04.04.14], opt comm bits.

bill/jrgm/jag, are you able to repro this?

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

this worksforme on win2k with either 4/03 or 3/21 builds, either when starting 
-mail or -edit first.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

okeedoke.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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a. that it's still a problem with ***recent trunk builds*** on the all
appropriate platform[s]

b. provide clear steps to reproduce (unless a good test case is already in the
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