155210 - mozilla -jsconsole <url> tries to load URL as chrome

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 74303

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

Description

[Shanmugavelu Shanmuganathan (gone)]

mozilla --sync --no-xshm -jsconsole  http://camera01.cs.wustl.edu

This brings up two navigator windows with smallest possible height.
This happens only when with url. 
if I try the same experiment with java.sun.com (or any other)
two windows appear, but the windows have no menus in it. 

I saw the same behaviour on a Linux too.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

when you do

mozilla -jsconsole URL

what you are telling it is to bring up the javscript console, and have it (the
javascript console) load the URL.

Comment 2

[Shanmugavelu Shanmuganathan (gone)]

Got it. 
But isn't the problem that the windows are tiny (with
http://camera01.cs.wustl.edu)  a bug?

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

ok, when you do "-jsconsole URL", it initially tries to do javascript console,
but that doesn't take arguments (URL is an argument for jsconsole).  When it
realizes that, it takes URL to be the chrome.  you should get the same behavior with

mozilla -chrome http://camera01.cs.wustl.edu

if this is a bug, it's in command-line handling

Comment 4

[Shanmugavelu Shanmuganathan (gone)]

On a Linux machine I typed
mozilla -chrome http://camera01.cs.wustl.edu

(Cancelled  the username/password dialog box)
I got a tiny window. 

Comment 5

[timeless]

-chrome foo means take foo and use it as chrome, the cancel causes the page to
be effectively empty, there's no bug there.

Comment 6

[Shanmugavelu Shanmuganathan (gone)]

Even if I type a valid  Username and password the window height and width
is the minimum.

Comment 7

[Michael Lefevre]

I tried -chrome with a couple of web pages, and it gave very bizarre results
each time. but that's not a bug - you must expect it to do bizarre things if you
tell it to do bizarre things.

the question is why does:
mozilla -jsconsole URL
try and launch the URL as chrome?

when the -jsconsole doesn't take an argument, shouldn't it take the URL as a URL?

apologies if i'm way off base here, or this should be a dupe of one of the other
command line parsing bugs, but this seems wrong to me. confirming, and
resummarising.

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

> the question is why does:
> mozilla -jsconsole URL
> try and launch the URL as chrome?
> 
> when the -jsconsole doesn't take an argument, shouldn't it take the URL as a 
> URL?

bug 74303

Comment 9

[Michael Lefevre]

ok, so if the only issue here is the command line parsing, and that's covered by
the other bug, then this is a dupe, right?  marking as such, please thwap me if
you disagree...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74303 ***

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup.