Closed
Bug 175950
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
x-remote should open a new window if none exists
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: X-remote, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: sameerds, Assigned: blizzard)
References
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021021 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021021 $ mozilla-xremote-client "openURL()" $ mozilla -remote "openURL()" Running either of these when no instance of mozilla is open produces no result. It should instead open a new window ... most useful when one wants to create a launcher on the desktop. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1•22 years ago
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This is entirely by design. I'm not going to change the behaviour of this because it's been like this for years. Mozilla will return a different exit code if it didn't find a window, for what it's worth.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Comment 2•22 years ago
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*** Bug 166096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3•21 years ago
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*** Bug 221567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4•21 years ago
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Don't take this the wrong way but that is a rather POOR method of handling this form of opening. this would be like saying under windows if a user clicks on a url in another program then if mozilla isn't running then tough luck! The only way to open a URL under linux into an already running mozilla instance is via this method. It should not be up to the average user (who you are trying to help) to figure out how to make a script to determine if mozilla is running or not and open it a different way if it isn't. I'm sure that this would take next to no time to implement. Not implementing it makes it impossible to use mozilla under linux to open up html files from disk or from other applications when there is already an instance running. Without the script the opening method is one or the other Please reconsider this OR include some code at the start of the mozilla script to determine if mozilla is already running!
Updated•5 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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