Closed Bug 36925 Opened 24 years ago Closed 11 years ago

List current URL as an X property of the window

Categories

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P3)

x86
Linux
enhancement

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WONTFIX
Future

People

(Reporter: cks+mozilla, Assigned: trudelle)

References

Details

Unix Netscape 4.xx lists the current URL being shown in each Netscape window
in the X property _MOZILLA_URL attached to each X window (one can see this with
xprop). This is a convenient little thing for programs that want to read out
and record Netscape's state.

 Mozilla doesn't have anything like this. It would be nice if it exported such
information (at least the URL and possibly more) into X properties in a similar
way.
moving to m30, putting on helpwanted radar.
Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: --- → M30
Status: UNCONFIRMED → ASSIGNED
Ever confirmed: true
Mass-moving all M20-M30 XPToolkit bugs to Future
Target Milestone: M30 → Future
reducing spam
From my point of view it is more a regression than RFE because old NN4.x
supported this. This feature is important for better integration with other
applications. In my case I want to use mozilla/netscape from NetBeans IDE and if
I want to reuse the same window for each request I need to find id of widnow
where the first displayed URL is loaded. It is important for me that I can do it
using commands like xprop and parsing their output as the IDE is written in Java
and we want to avoid writing any native code for communication with browser.

I would appreciate any realistic estimation when it can be solved.
*** Bug 128423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 64598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Realistic estimate: "not until someone who wants it writes it".... That's what
Future + helpwanted means.  In at least one of the duplicates the reporter said
this should be easy.  I'm not an X programmer, but some will be hunted down to
review a patch if one exists.  :)
Keywords: 4xp
Boris, if you're not an X11 programmer, please get someone who's familiar with
the code to glance at this bug.  for that person, this is trivial.  for an
outsider who's never looked at the code, it's a big research project.

also, i'm going to re-open the bug you marked as duplicate because, although it
contains mention of this window property, it suggests a feature enhancement that
can and should be considered for all versions of the browser, regardless of
platform.

mozilla bloats on unix, but windows crashes.  checkpoint files would make
mozilla a better browser than IE.  

-- stig
*** Bug 136776 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
QA Contact: jrgmorrison → xptoolkit.widgets
I'm wondering if at this stage, this should be closed: with multiple tabs, it's not possible to usefully report the current URL. Might it also be something of an unexpected data leak from the browser?
Keywords: helpwanted
My opinion (as the original submitter) is that this bug can be closed
now. You can get the same overall information in sessionstore.js and
in fact sessionstore.js is better for this because it provides more
information in what is now a more parseable format. The single usage
case that sessionstore.js probably doesn't help with is if you want to
know a specific window's URL and I think that that's too obscure a case.

(This is especially so given that this bug has lingered on for just 
over thirteen years.)
Thanks for the update.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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