301923 - Using the new-tab remote command to open a local file, is only working when a file:// prefix is given.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: X-remote, defect)

Description

[Clemens Fuchslocher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

The following commands are working as expected:

$ firefox -remote "openURL(/tmp)"
$ firefox -remote "openURL(file:///tmp,new-tab)"
$ firefox -remote "openURL(file://localhost/tmp,new-tab)"

But this one fails:

$ firefox -remote "openURL(/tmp,new-tab)"


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

==> X-Remote

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Seems to work in windows
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050723
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005072306

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: patch

the real problem here is that OpenURI only takes URIs.	If it doesn't fall back
to opening in the current tab, it should at least return an error.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

Further poking shows that current firefox trunk is fine (the code was forked),
so the attached patch is just for SeaMonkey.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

Comment on attachment 190313 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

minor change to return an error code instead of failing silently.  this is
SeaMonkey-only.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed on 2005-07-28.

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 354154 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***