1409319 - open an URL in existing running firefox in new tab

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P5)

Description

[Bhasker C V]

Attachment: Shutter_010.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170929010941

Steps to reproduce:

I use this script 
firefox-esr --profile /home/myl/.firefox --new-tab http://www.google.co.uk
to open a new tab in existing running firefox. Firefox reports an error that firefox is already running.

Also tried
Various other commands checked:

firefox-esr -remote --profile /home/myl/.firefox --new-tab http://www.google.co.uk

firefox-esr --remote --profile /home/myl/.firefox --new-tab http://www.google.co.uk

firefox-esr --no-remote --profile /home/myl/.firefox --new-tab http://www.google.co.uk 


I already asked for help here

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1179799


Actual results:

Firefox is reporting an error that firefox is already running.

More here

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1179799


Expected results:

A new tab with the passed url must open in the current running firefox.

Comment 1

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to Bhasker C V from comment #0)
> Created attachment 8919217 [details]
> Shutter_010.png
> 
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/52.0
> Build ID: 20170929010941
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> I use this script 
> firefox-esr --profile /home/myl/.firefox --new-tab http://www.google.co.uk
> to open a new tab in existing running firefox. Firefox reports an error that
> firefox is already running.
> 
> Also tried
> Various other commands checked:
> 
> firefox-esr -remote --profile /home/myl/.firefox --new-tab
> http://www.google.co.uk
> 
> firefox-esr --remote --profile /home/myl/.firefox --new-tab
> http://www.google.co.uk
> 
> firefox-esr --no-remote --profile /home/myl/.firefox --new-tab
> http://www.google.co.uk 
> 
> 
> I already asked for help here
> 
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1179799
> 
> 
> Actual results:
> 
> Firefox is reporting an error that firefox is already running.
> 
> More here
> 
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1179799
> 
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> A new tab with the passed url must open in the current running firefox.

Does the running instance use --no-remote? If it does that could be your problem. --no-remote implies a stand-alone isolated instance.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-no-remote

Comment 3

[Bhasker C V]

Yes. The original instance was created using --no-remote. 
This complicate things. 

If I want to start 2 instances of firefox in two different profiles, the second instance always uses the first firefox profile

/usr/bin/firefox -profile <new path> 
always opens firefox window in the new window with the existing running firefox profile.

(since I cannot give a --no-remote here which makes it an stubbed instance AFAIK)

I vaguely remember being able to chose both the profile and also the running instance attached to profile to open a new URL tab. This is not possible anymore ?

Comment 4

[Bhasker C V]

Yes. The original instance was created using --no-remote. 
This complicates things. 

If I want to start 2 instances of firefox in two different profiles, the second instance always uses the first firefox profile

/usr/bin/firefox -profile <new path> 
always opens firefox window in a new window with the existing running firefox profile.

(since I cannot give a --no-remote here which makes it a stubbed instance AFAIK)

I vaguely remember being able to choose both the profile and also the running instance attached to profile to open a new URL tab(running two instances of firefox each reachable remotely). This is not possible anymore ?

Comment 5

[Bhasker C V]

Yes. The original instance was created using --no-remote. 
This complicates things. 

If I want to start 2 instances of firefox in two different profiles, the second instance always uses the first firefox profile

/usr/bin/firefox -profile <new path> 
always opens firefox window in a new window with the existing running firefox profile.

(since I cannot give a --no-remote here which makes it a stubbed instance AFAIK)

I vaguely remember being able to choose both the profile and also the running instance attached to profile to open a new URL tab(running two instances of firefox each reachable remotely). This is not possible anymore ?

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552613