251518 - "firefox -remote" doesnt open new window.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246166

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Kincl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9

If firefox is already running and I want to open a new window(/tab) and I give
the following command, I also get the following error:
Linux:~> firefox -remote "openurl(http://www.google.com)"
Error: No running window found

I have tried variations on the "-remote" command and none of them open up a new
Firefox window/tab.  They all return the "No running window found" error.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open up Firefox (terminal, shortcut, etc...)
2.Go to terminal
3.Type "firefox -remote"
(4.A command for "-remote" can be specified, but doesn't have to.  It returns
the same error either way.)
Actual Results:  
Error: No running window found

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have opened a new window/tab using the same profile I was already
using.

(-remote is usefull to create firefox launching scripts with so you can click
links from outside programs and have them open up using your same profile.)

Comment 1

[Eric Kincl]

> (4.A command for "-remote" can be specified, but doesn't have to.  It returns
> the same error either way.)
Edit: Whoops, apparently "-remote" does have to have a command with it.  Bug
still exists for me however.  A sample of a full command is:
firefox -remote "openurl(http://www.something.com)"

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246166 ***