320053 - FF opens URL's differently on command line depending on mode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 298960

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Bill Sheppard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Ever since upgrading to FF 1.4/5 I've noticed Wired News URL's clicked on from Thunderbird HTML mail don't open properly. I've tracked down the error and can duplicate it with the following:

     $: /usr/bin/firefox 
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69706,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html"

works OK, but:

     $: /usr/bin/firefox -a firefox -remote 
"openURL(http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69706,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html,new-tab)"

gives me a Wired error message indicating the page doesn't exist. I see this consistently with Wired News email but not when clicking on URL's from any other email. If I enter the URL directly it works, and this worked fine with FF 1.07 and before. I've tried truncating the URL at the "?", which works fine when entered directly, but also brings up a non-existent page when done with the "openURL" construct. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Enter on command line "/usr/bin/firefox -a firefox -remote "openURL(http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69706,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html,new-tab)"
2.  Wired indicates page doesn't exist
3.  Enter /usr/bin/firefox "http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69706,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html"
4.  Page comes up fine

Actual Results:  
Pages retrieved differ

Expected Results:  
Both should bring up proper page

Comment 1

[James Ross]

This is because -remote doesn't handle URLs with commas in, see bug 298960. This bug is a direct duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 298960 ***