246609 - Running with a URL gives error: "Error: No running window found."

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177996

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Andy Balaam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 Galeon/1.3.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040612 Firefox/0.8

With firefox not running, I try to open it with a URL, e.g.

$ firefox http://www.google.com

but I get this error message:

Error: No running window found.

If I run firefox without a URL, like so:

$ firefox

it starts fine.

When there is already an instance of firefox running, specifying a URL on the
command line works as expected, opening that URL in the running version of Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close all firefox windows
2. Type the following at a bash prompt:

firefox http://www.google.com


Actual Results:  
Firefox fails to start, and an error message appears:

Error: No running window found.

Expected Results:  
I expected a new instance of Firefox to start, displaying the web site at the
supplied URL.

As explained above, if another instance of Firefox is already running, Firefox
behaves as expected.

Comment 1

[John McCreesh]

I also have found this behaviour on Fedora Core 1. It's a new bug intorduced
since 0.8.

John

Comment 2

[Greg Schussman]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I also have found this behaviour on Fedora Core 1. It's a new bug intorduced
> since 0.8.
> 
> John
> 

I have experienced this behavior as well.  Why is this bug still "UNCONFIRMED"?
It is a real bug.  It is very easy to reproduce.   There have been problems
under linux trying to load multiple copies of the browser since even before it
was called firefox.   I realize that there are a zillion bugs and that many
people are working very, very **** them.  At the same time, if this, which is
a real bug and is easily reproducable, is still "UNCONFIRMED" after two weeks,
there is not much motivation to try filing bug reports.  I wouldn't expect it to
be fixed in two weeks, but please acknowledge that it is a real bug.

Thanks.

Comment 3

[Greg Schussman]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > I also have found this behaviour on Fedora Core 1. It's a new bug intorduced
> > since 0.8.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> I have experienced this behavior as well.  Why is this bug still "UNCONFIRMED"?
> It is a real bug.  It is very easy to reproduce.   There have been problems
> under linux trying to load multiple copies of the browser since even before it
> was called firefox.   I realize that there are a zillion bugs and that many
> people are working very, very **** them.  At the same time, if this, which is
> a real bug and is easily reproducable, is still "UNCONFIRMED" after two weeks,
> there is not much motivation to try filing bug reports.  I wouldn't expect it to
> be fixed in two weeks, but please acknowledge that it is a real bug.
> 
> Thanks.


Doh!  Silly ingorant me.  Looks like there's been a lot of activity after all,
and that this is a duplicate of bug # 117796.

Comment 4

[Alexander Skwar]

Sounds like a dupe of bug #247664.

Comment 5

[Robert Parenton]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247664 ***

Comment 6

[Robert Parenton]

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