Open Bug 1258119 Opened 8 years ago Updated 2 years ago

`firefox --browser <url>` opens url in an existing window, not the new one

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect, P3)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Startup and Profile System
Version:
38 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: sebaspe97, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150518070114

Steps to reproduce:

Have multiple firefox instances running

firefox --browser http://site.org




Actual results:

it opend an extra firefox window, but the tab for http://site.org did not went to the newly spawned instance.


Expected results:

I expected the http://site.org tab to be going to the new instance
Component: Untriaged → Startup and Profile System
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Priority: -- → P3
Summary: Unintuitive handling of --browser <extra args> → `firefox --browser <url>` opens url in an existing window, not the new one
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Severity: normal → S3
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