321317 - Remote interface doesn't work under Linux/PowerPC

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 312154

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051217 Debian/1.5.dfsg-2 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051217 Debian/1.5.dfsg-2 Firefox/1.5

On my Linux/PowerPC machine, the remote interface to open a URL from another application (terminal, shell, RSS reader...) doesn't work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox.
2. From a shell, type "firefox http://www.mozilla.org/".
Actual Results:  
After about 15 seconds, I get an error box saying: "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."

Expected Results:  
The URL should have been opened in the running Firefox instance.

No problem under Linux/x86 and under Mac OS X. There was no problem either with Firefox 1.0.x.

This bug has also been reported on the Debian BTS:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343913

Comment 1

[francesco.pedrini]

i can reproduce this on my ibook, is a very annoying problem, i must use 1.0.x...

Comment 2

[Eugen Dedu]

I confirm this bug.  It happens to me the same way as to the reporter.  I have a PowerBook G4 Apple laptop.  It appears on 1.5 version, not on the 1.0 version of firefox.

Eugen

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is a problem for all big-endian systems, the patch in bug 321317 fixes it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 312154 ***

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I meant 312154 of course.