247610 - CLI options like '-installExtension' do not work without $DISPLAY

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 265859

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Enrico Scholz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 Firefox/0.9

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/extensions/commandlineoptions.html
tells some CLI options which can be used in multi-user environments to
install extensions systemwide.

Usually, such an installation happens automatic (e.g. with cfengine,
or with RPMS) without having an X server running. Doing this, results
in something like:

| $ DISPLAY= firefox -installExtension /tmp/Adblock.xpi application
| 
| (firefox-bin:16000): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:  
| $

and 'firefox' exits immediately without installing the extensions.

Keeping '$DISPLAY' set, things are fine.



firefox was configured for the gtk2 widgetset on an FC2 like system.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. unset DISPLAY
2. firefox -installExtension /tmp/Adblock.xpi application

Actual Results:  
firefox-bin:16000): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Comment 1

[alain.forcioli]

Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20050117 Firefox/1.0

I have the same behavior with Firefox 1.0.



$ DISPLAY= firefox -install-global-extension ./jslib_current.xpi

(firefox-bin:3663): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Comment 2

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 265859 ***