234359 - -remote does not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177996

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Felix Wiemann]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

Firefox 0.8 is running (under Linux).

$ ./firefox -remote 'ping()'
No running window found.

$ ./firefox -remote 'openURL(http://www.google.com/)'
No running window found.

(Of course, the URL isn't opened.)

I started Firefox as the same user, and executed it on the same computer,
X-server, filesystem, directory.

I consider this bug major, because there is no other possibility to open a URL
in Firefox when it is already running.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Felix Wiemann]

I just wanted to add that I am using Ion.

The explanations in <http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html>, question
3.4, might help you to track down the problem.

It works fine with gnome-moz-remote, by the way.

Comment 2

[Alexander Skwar]

In a 1.0 AVIARY branch checked out yesterday, I'm still seeing this. In a trunk
checked out at about the same time, I'm NOT seeing this.

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177996 ***