305644 - Adding "-a firefox" to the mozilla-xremote-client in the example script

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Peter Galiovský]

Hello,

maybe it would be useful to add "-a firefox" as the first parameter to 
mozilla-xremote-client in the example script, so it would read:

if $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox openURL\("$url"\); then

Otherwise when another Mozilla based application besides Firefox and Thunderbird
is running (ie Komodo) I got an Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal from
mozilla-xremote-client. Adding -a firefox seems to fix this issue and probably
won't hurt anyone.

And maybe also explicitly point out that MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME should be changed to
wherevere the mozilla-xremote-client resides. There are more and more Linux
users that can't do very much in addition to copy/paste readymade solutions
found on net. Then they wonder what went wrong. Hell, I'm probably one of them
too sometimes. :)

Comment 1

[David Boswell]

Copying dmose for input.  If this page is still relevant, I'd recommend moving it to MDC.  If it's not relevant, we can archive it so people don't stumble across out of date content.

Comment 2

[David Boswell]

Closing as wontfix.  After discussion with the Thunderbird documentation lead, I've archived this page.  For reference, it is still available on the archive site at:

http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html