304477 - Release notes should mention that -remote is broken/deprecated

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Akkana Peck]

Someone on #developers mentioned Asa's name in connection with release notes.
Sorry, Asa, if you're not the right assignee.

Bug 280725, implementing auto-remote, broke -remote: it no longer handles urls
containing commas, as described in bug 298960. I'm assuming -remote is
deprecated if that's not going to be fixed, though that's a policy decision
someone should probably make.

This should be releasenoted (if it's not going to be fixed) since a lot of
people use -remote and will wonder why sometimes it no longer works reliably.

Suggested placement: under Known Issues. I'm not sure if -remote should be under
Linux/Unix or All Systems -- did it work everywhere? Probably it's mostly
linux/unix users who care about it.

Suggested wording (or at least a start):

firefox -remote (mozilla-xremote-client) no longer works on urls containing
commas, and is deprecated. Use firefox /url/ instead: it will automatically use
any currently running firefox to open the url according to the tab preferences.
firefox -new-window /url/ will open the url in a new window. There is no
-new-tab option as yet.

Comment 1

[Akkana Peck]

-new-tab works now!  Please change those last two sentences to:

firefox -new-window /url/ will open the url in a new window; firefox -new-tab
/url/ will open the url in a new tab.

Setting the flag for b4 hoping this will get incorporated into the release notes.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

Rafael owns the release notes. By itself this isn't a stop ship bug since it
isn't related to the code at all. But we should maek sure our release notes are
correct.

Rafael, maybe you could update the beta 1 release notes and then we can mark
this bug as fixed since changes there should get picked up for the final release
notes.

Comment 3

[Akkana Peck]

Rafael: ping? Any chance of getting the release notes updated before the final release?

Comment 4

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Ok.

Comment 5

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

This is fixed for 1.5 release. Please reopen if you disagree.

Comment 6

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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