292358 - Need an option to join existing session

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, enhancement)

Description

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041118 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041118 Firefox/1.0

When Firefox (or Mozilla) is started, if it detects a previous running session,
the program pops up a dialog to ask if you want to exit or load a different profile.

In all my years using Mozilla, I have never needed to do either.  In every case
the actual use-case is "or join existing session"

it would seem a simple fix; most of us cobble shell scripts to do just that,
detect the prior mozilla process and modify the invocation to use the
remote-launch syntax if there's already an instance running, otherwise launch as
normal.

trouble is, many update releases break the old systems requiring this script to
be updated, and it's not included by default with many distributions.  and it
does seem a relatively simple hack to have the core code do this, since there i
s obviously already a detection of the prior instance, is it not possible to
offer the option (and make the silent default) simply to shunt the current URL
request off to that existing instance and then exit?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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