111491 - URL on cmd line ignored if -chrome option used

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Mark Kobine]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    Mozilla 0.9.5

Running Mozilla using the -chrome option to specify a different chrome and 
passing an URL on the command line does not work. The chrome is loaded but the 
URL is ignored.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.type mozilla.exe -chrome chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul 
file://localhost/test.html

Actual Results:  Mozilla starts up with the specified chrome but the given URL 
is not loaded.

Expected Results:  Expected Mozilla to start with the specified chrome and load 
the URL.

The problem appears to centre around the -chrome option. Use of other options 
such as -height and -width do not cause the URL to be ignored. Using the -url 
option before the URL does not fix the problem. Reordering the options on the 
command line also does not help.
Further investigation of the problem showed that the URL argument does not get 
into Startup() in navigator.js if the chrome option is used. The javascript 
believes that there is one argument (which is correct) but that argument's 
value is null.
Avoiding use of -chrome cures the problem.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See also bug 109765 and bug 40481

Comment 2

[Bill Law]

Not high priority.

Comment 3

[marc_bouffard]

Not high priority?

For those of us trying to use firefox as the browser in custom kiosks this is absolutely essential.

I am a big proponent of firefox and want to see it succeed, and so wanted to make sure to use your browser in my app.  Unfortunately I cannot now.