176508 - helper applicatons can not be specified with command line arguments

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57420

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Kervin Pierre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021018
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021018

mozilla does not seem to accept a helper application specified with a command
line argument.  For instance it accepts "/usr/local/bin/acroread" but errors out
on "/usr/bin/timidity -ig"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Menu edit->preferences->Navigator->HelperApplications
2.Add a new mime type and specify a application that requires and argument
3.play a file of that type

Actual Results:  
error

Expected Results:  
play the file

Comment 1

[shrirang khanzode]

sairuh , would this belong to you ?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a duplicate.  Please find the original (in the right component even) and
dup.

Comment 3

[Kenneth Herron]

Looks like Boris is thinking of bug 57420.

Also note bug 157347; apparently this issue is fixed on OS/2.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57420 ***