249072 - firefox does not open the url from the commandline if firefox is already running. brings up profile manager instead.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177996

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Anatoly Yakovenko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Firefox does not open the url from the commandline if firefox is already
running.  brings up profile manager instead

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  run firefox.
2.  run firefox www.google.com
3.

Actual Results:  
profile manager came up.

Expected Results:  
open up www.google.com in a new window.

here is a patch.  i just copied that part from the mozilla script.


*** firefox.orginal     2004-06-29 10:23:57.000000000 -0700
--- /usr2/anatolyy/programs/firefox/firefox     2004-06-29 10:23:46.000000000 -0700
***************
*** 141,146 ****
--- 141,176 ----
  fi
  # End of section that checks for currently running instance. - jtg
   
+ USE_EXIST=0
+ opt="$1"
+ case "$opt" in
+   -mail)
+       open_mail ${1+"$@"}
+       ;;
+   -compose)
+       open_compose ${1+"$@"}
+       ;;
+   -*) ;;
+   *) USE_EXIST=1 ;;
+ esac
+
+ if [ "${USE_EXIST}" -eq "1" ] && [ "${ALREADY_RUNNING}" -eq "1" ]; then
+   # check to make sure that the command contains at least a :/ in it.
+   echo $opt | grep -e ':/' 2>/dev/null > /dev/null
+   RETURN_VAL=$?
+   if [ "$RETURN_VAL" -eq "1" ]; then
+     # if it doesn't begin with a '/' and it exists when the pwd is
+     # prepended to it then append the full path
+     echo $opt | grep -e '^/' 2>/dev/null > /dev/null
+     if [ "${RETURN_VAL}" -ne "0" ] && [ -e `pwd`/$opt ]; then
+       opt="`pwd`/$opt"
+     fi
+     exec $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM "openurl($opt)" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
+   fi
+   # just pass it off if it looks like a url
+   exec $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM "openurl($opt,new-window)" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
+ fi
+
  if [ "$OSTYPE" = "beos" ]; then
    mimeset -F $MOZILLA_BIN
  fi

Comment 1

[Anatoly Yakovenko]

Attachment: patch

i copied the fix from the mozilla startup script.

Comment 2

[Nilson Cain]

I see it too.

Comment 3

[Robert Parenton]

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