143931 - -remote broke between 1.0 RC1 and 1.0 RC2

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 144027

(Core Graveyard :: X-remote, defect)

Description

[Timothée Besset]

eek
my mozilla desktop icon uses a script that calls -remote to avoid spawning
multiple mozilla processes
this has been working fine up to RC2
the command below used to work fine <= RC1, now they don't:

timo@antares:~/mozilla-rc2$ ./mozilla -remote
"openURL(http://www.google.fr,new-window)"
timo@antares:~/mozilla-rc2$ 

note that there is no error message, which means the command was actually
transmitted?

I noted that
./mozilla -remote "openURL()"
and
./mozilla -remote "openURL(http://www.google.fr)"
are still working fine though

If I can't have new-window working (I saw that new-tab is coming too .. yay!), I
can't use it.

Comment 1

[Timothée Besset]

this is related to bug 99945 and 116653

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

resembles bug 122498

Comment 3

[Timothée Besset]

No I don't think it's 122498, since it works with some syntaxes and doesn't work
with new-window
And also, it appeared between 1.0 RC1 and 1.0 RC2, it is working fine in all <= RC1

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

could you do "echo $?" after it doesn't work?  0 means it thinks it succeeded.

you might also try mozilla-xremote-client:
mozilla-xremote-client "openURL(http://www.google.fr,new-window)"

Comment 5

[Timothée Besset]

yeah, "echo $?" returns 0

as for mozilla-xremote-client, I had never used it, here's what happens when I try:

./run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-xremote-client "openURL()"
this works, but the other cases
openURL(http://www.google.fr)
or
openURL(http://www.google.fr,new-window)
don't work
so, mozilla-xremote-client covers less cases that ./mozilla -remote

Comment 6

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

mozilla-xremote-client and mozilla use the same code to communicate with the
running server.  There shouldn't be a difference.  Anyway, I can't reproduce
this.  Things are working fine here.

Comment 7

[Timothée Besset]

ok, I backed up my ~/.mozilla and put it aside to start from scratch
with a brand new profile, -remote works fine
I'd rather avoid loosing my profile and restart from scratch though
I got plenty of login/pass and bookmarks ..

Comment 8

[Timothée Besset]

to think of it, RC2 with my old profile has other symptoms:
the Help > About Plug-Ins and Help > About Mozilla don't work anymore (i.e., do
nothing)
that works fine with a new profile now too

Comment 9

[Andrew Schultz]

you are probably seeing bug 144027

Comment 10

[Timothée Besset]

definitely!
I removed chrome.rdf and I am able to use my old profile again

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144027 ***