391155 - Firefox -app trick to run XULRunner app loads http://www.mozilla.com/projects/myapp/1.0/firstrun/

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007080605 Minefield/3.0a8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007080605 Minefield/3.0a8pre ID:2007080605

I read about bug 388833, and tried it with the minimal myapp sample from http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Getting_started_with_XULRunner

It worked (wahoo!), but it also opened a browser window to http://www.mozilla.com/projects/myapp/1.0/firstrun/ , obviously a 404.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download http://developer.mozilla.org/samples/xulrunner/myapp.zip
2. Fix its application.ini for Minefield's Gecko 1.9 (see bug 389113).
3. Use -app trick to start app, e.g.
   > cd "C:\Program Files\Minefield"
   > firefox -app "\full\path\to\myapp\application.ini"
Actual Results:  
The little My App XULRunner app appears (good!)
But also a new browser window appears that opens http://www.mozilla.com/projects/myapp/1.0/firstrun/  (I think that was the URL, Minefield crashed while I was entering this bug ;-) .)
obviously this is a 404.

I believe this browser window is in a separate process from my running Minefield, because it lacked my add-ons and bookmarks.

I started the XULRunner app a second time, and a blank browser window appeared.

Expected Results:  
I'm not sure!  There's nothing in myapp's application.ini about www.mozilla.com/projects or firstrun.

(My motivation is to make it easier to see if bugs are specific to Firefox 3 or in its underlying toolkit.  However, that would require a more substantial XULRunner app.)

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is the problem noted in bug 388833 comment 1. The firefox components (the commandline handlers in particular) are in effect.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Attachment: add a check to skip firefox commandline handler when launching xr app

This patch keeps the default commandline handlers from registering/running when Firefox is launching a xulrunner application

Comment 3

[James Ross]

Comment on attachment 276900 [details] [diff] [review]
add a check to skip firefox commandline handler when launching xr app

-    var compReg =
+   var compReg =

You've lost one character of indentation on this line. :)

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Attachment: v2

same as the first patch with indent fixup

Comment 5

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

new revision: 1.44; previous revision: 1.43