1133357 - command line argument "-remote 'openURL(url)'" does not work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[dzu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150215030238

Steps to reproduce:

Call "firefox -remote 'openURL(http://www.heise.de)'"



Actual results:

A new window witht the start page opens.


Expected results:

A new tab showing the requested URL in the runnnig firefox should open.

Note that this happens in firefox nightly 38.0a1 (2015-02-15) but still works as expected in
35.0.1.

Comment 1

[dzu]

In the meantime I tried to debug this in todays nightly some more.

It turns out that the commandline correctly gets sent through 'client.SendCommandLine'
from the called firefox.  The running firefox process also correctly receives the parameters and nsXRemoteService::HandleCommandLine() gets executed. It seems 'cmdline' is built correctly, but I could not make sense what happens in cmdline->Run().  After execution of this method, the new
window showing the home page pops up and HandleCommandLine returns "200 executed command".

Unfortunately currently I don't understand what should happen in cmdline->Run() and why it does not work any more....

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

They removed -remote in bug 1080319.

Comment 3

[dzu]

Hi Aleksej, thanks for pointing out the removal - I wasn't aware of this.

However I still wonder why no error message like "unrecognized option '-remote'" is output.
Doing some checks it seems that all unknown options are just silently ignored.  This certainly
contradicts my expectations but certainly is out of scope for this report :(

Comment 4

[[:Aleksej]]

(In reply to dzu from comment #3)
> However I still wonder why no error message like "unrecognized option
> '-remote'" is output.
> Doing some checks it seems that all unknown options are just silently
> ignored.  This certainly
> contradicts my expectations but certainly is out of scope for this report :(

You can file an enhancement bug asking for that.  Make it block the removal one.

Comment 5

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Mistakenly filed against Firefox 38 and should be instead 38 Branch. Sorry for the spam. dkl