215428 - openURL() - should be possible to open a new mozilla window even if there is not one already running

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 99945

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[shane o'connor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030729
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030729


This is in some part relating to webeyes (a gnome applet) that uses the command
"mozilla -remote 'openURL(%s)" to search for a specified string.

The problem is that this command (above) only opens a new tab in an existing
mozilla window. So if there is no window running then no mozilla window will be
opened - this pretty much renders the webeyes applet useless unless mozilla is
already running (and in that sense it becomes a bit pointless).

In addition I tried using the command "mozilla -remote 'openURL(www.gnome.org,
new-window)" from a terminal but this will only open a new window if there is
already an existing mozilla window running.

Is there any way to use "-remote 'openURL()'" so that a new window can be opened
 even when there is no mozilla window already running?

A bug has also been logged in bugzilla.gnome.org under webeyes applet 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119326


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. execute "mozilla -remote 'openURL(www.gnome.org, new-window)" when there is
no existing mozilla window/process running 

2.
3.

Actual Results:  
An error message is displayed in terminal
"No running window found"

Expected Results:  
Opened a mozilla window regardless of whether there was one running already. If
the openURL(%s, new-window) command won't do this then there should be a command
that will - sorry for logging the bug if there is but muggins (me) couldn't find
it :)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

For the RPM builds, just using 'mozilla URL' will either start mozilla or do the
xremote thing, as needed...

Comment 2

[Robin Monks]

Dupe of bug 99945

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99945 ***