241060 - The remote option and the mozilla-xremote-client are missing from the daily build

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 241059

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[tony]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 Netscape
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040419

I downloaded today's daily build to check if the bug I found in 2004031613 was
fixed, before logging it (it was, thank you). As I use a script to start mozilla
or to attach it to a running instance, I noted that when called with -remote,
the browser simply starts, displaying the annoying 'select a profile' dialog
that I want to avoid. 

I have searched bugzilla and the mozilla site, but found no indication that the
option was dropped or unavailable in the nightly builds. It is quite handy as I
use multiple desktops that atttrect lots of clutter and locating the mozilla
window to click the toolbar is a bit of a hassle most of the time. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start mozilla 
2.start another copy of mozilla with option -remote "xfeDoCommand(openBrowser)"
3."select a profile" dialog appears
4. close all instances
5. start mozilla --help
6. remote is not in the output
Actual Results:  
as described

Expected Results:  
As the official 1.7b release (2004031613): attach to the running instance and
display the browser window. 

The binary mozilla-xremote-client is also missing. In the installation wizard, I
chose 'custom' and unselected Chatzilla. The installation created no problems,
and the install.log contains no worrying messages.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 241059 ***