268869 - unable to connect to an already running instance

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[André Wyrwa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

When a user already has an instance of Firefox open and he wishes to create
another Firefox windows from outside firefox (i.e. open a page by clicking a
link in evolution) Firefox won't be able to connect to the already open instance
and hence nothing will happen.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox
2. Open Terminal
3. type firefox http://www.google.de and enter


Expected Results:  
Open another firefox window or a tab in the current one to display the requested
page.

I figured that the problem is a missing line in the <prefix>/bin/firefox script
and this problem exists since 0.10.0 . I'll submit a patch quickly.

Comment 1

[André Wyrwa]

Attachment: Patch that fixes the issue by adding a line that makes the script find run-mozilla.sh and mozilla-xremote-client

This patch should fix the problem.

I forgot to say...the problem might only occur if Firefox is installed to a
non-standard prefix (like for me /opt/mozilla).

The script tries to follow symlinks to figure the directory where the actual
distributed executables are. It doesn't find one 'cause it is not started as a
symlink but also doesn't reside in the same directories as the binaries. For
that case it holds a fallback condition. Trouble is that within this fallback
condition it only sets the dist_bin variable, but doesn't adopt the run_moz
variable. The patch fixes this.

André.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

xremote client is no more

Comment 3

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

*** Bug 304375 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***