684973 - Behavior of -no-remote different/broken?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Jason Duell]

Is this intententional?:

Aurora (and earlier FF back into mists of time):

   firefox -no-remote &       // launch browser
   firefox http://foo.com/    // open foo.com in new tab in same FF instance

Nightly (as of today for me, but I didn't use it this weekend):

   Same commands cause 2nd to fail with "firefox already running but not responding" error.

This smells like a serious regression to me...

FWIW I also see this change (which made me notice in the first place):  I open my browser with a -profile and -no-remote, then have thunderbird open http links with neither flag, and instead of opening new tab in my browser, I get new firefox with default profile.   Repeating it causes new tabs to be opened in the default firefox (as opposed to error, above), which is why I suspect this is linked to -no-remote.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This was an intentional change made in bug 650078, which makes Linux match the Windows behavior.