683909 - (Lynn) xremote ping() doesn't find running instance as of nightly 8/31

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[lynn]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110830 Firefox/9.0a1
Build ID: 20110830032952

Steps to reproduce:

x64 "mozilla-xremote-client  ping() (part of script) stopped working as of nightly 8/31 (& 9/1), dropping back to nightly 8/30 (or earlier) works fine. this is on fedora15 (x64) with latest updates.


Actual results:

x64 8/31 (&9/1) nightly 
mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox -p prof1 "ping()" 

"Error: Failed to find a running server"

similar failure for
mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox -p prof1 "openURL($http,new-tab)"


Expected results:

xremote ping() should have found running instance

Comment 1

[lynn]

work-around ... instead of invoking firefox with
/usr/local/firefox/firefox -P prof1 --no-remote & 

use
/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin -P prof1 &

then
/usr/local/firefox/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox -p prof1 "openURL($http,new-tab)"

starts working

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Very late comment: Is this still an issue with a recent Firefox build?

Comment 3

[lynn]

??? yes, well, it started working again and worked for very long time until mozilla-xremote-client disappeared from the nightly build a little over a month ago. Trying to use last available "mozilla-xremote-client" from nightly build also doesn't work with later builds.