256715 - Add startup script with "run-once" feature

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 177996

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Toralf Lund]

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

I've always been thinking that the default way of starting firefox (or any other
Mozilla app) should be via a script that implements a "run-once" feature, i.e.
that will
- Check if the current user is already running Firefox
- If it is, pass URL (if any) to that instance via the remote protocol; issue
the remote command to open a new window or tab if no URL was given.
- Start Firefox as usual if it isn't.

In other words, such a script should be included in the distribution, and
installed on /usr/bin or similar as the main Firefox command.

There are a lot of variants of this script floating around on the Net; I'll
attach a my very simple version of my own.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Toralf Lund]

Attachment: My firefox startup script (/usr/bin/firefox)

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This was taken care of in bug 177996 if I'm not mistaken. Could the problem be
that that script is not included in a standard location? I don't know cause I'm
not on linux.

Comment 3

[Toralf Lund]

Right. I overlooked that when adding this report. Maybe the fix is to new to be
in any of the veresions I've tested. I must admit I did not try the very latest
nightly before filing this as it is an old problem that I didn't expect to be
resolved just like that. (But the version I did try was no more than a few weeks
old.) But actually, I can't find it right away in 2004-08-24-12-trunk, either.
That's with the .tar.gz version.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

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

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Verifying old and obvious dupes. Sorry for bugspam.