318170 - xremote-client (or -remote "openURL(www...)") does not work with custom chrome.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: X-remote, defect)

Description

[marc_bouffard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11;U;Linux i686;en-US;rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922

If I have a regular firefox window (no custom chrome) open (in fedora core 4),
and I issue:

/bin/firefox -remote "openURL(www.google.com)"
or
xremote-client "openURL(www.google.com)"

Then the window that is already open will load the requested URL as it
should.

But if the existing window has any custom chrome at all (/bin/firefox -chrome
chrome://path/to/xul), then issuing the -remote command will always open a new
instance of the browser window with the default chrome.  Oddly enough, the
-remote "ping()" command returns with a status of 0 (as it should), it's just
that the openURL doesn't care.

I cannot get a custom chrome window to respond to any form of -remote openURL command. This is VERY easy to test, and happens 100% of the time for me (in both FF 1.04 and FF1.07).  Simply open up a browser window with any custom chrome components and try to issue a -remote "openURL()".  

Specifying the -chrome when issuing the -remote command does nothing different. (ie.  /bin/firefox -chrome chrome://path/to/xul -remote "openURL(http://www.google.com)" still opens up a new window with the default chrome.

-remote "openURL(www...)"cannot seem to find any running window when a -P profile is specified.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start firefox with custom chrome
2.issue: firefox -remote "ping()" (see it returns a 0)
3.issue: firefox -remote "openURL(http://www.google.com)" (can specify new-tab or new-window, does not matter).  See that this command open a new window with the default chrome

Actual Results:  
A new browser window with the default chrome is opened.

Expected Results:  
The current browser window with the custom chrome should load the new URL specified via -remote

Comment 1

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16pre) Gecko/20080616 BonEcho/2.0.0.16pre
 - Build ID: 2008061603

WFM. Several tabs open, current tab holds the download manager as a tab (chrome://downloadmgr/content/downloadtab.xul). firefox -remote "openURL(http://www.google.com)" opens Google in a new tab.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Mass resolving a bunch of old bugs in the x-remote component in preparation for archiving it. If this bug is still valid and useful, please move it to the "Toolkit: Startup and Profile System" component and reopen it.