820231 - Programs executed by Thunderbird are executed with Thunderbird's environment variables

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Seth Randall]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121129165506

Steps to reproduce:

1) Started Thunderbird with the -no-remote flag
2) Tried to open a link in Thunderbird using Firefox
3) Firefox opens with -no-remote


Actual results:

Firefox started with -no-remote when it shouldn't. Running an 'strace' on Thunderbird shows execve is being called with the following environment variables set:
 "MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER=/usr/bin/thunde"...
 "MOZ_CRASHREPORTER_DATA_DIRECTORY"...
 "MOZ_CRASHREPORTER_RESTART_ARG_1="...
 "MOZ_CRASHREPORTER_RESTART_ARG_2="...
 "MOZ_CRASHREPORTER_RESTART_ARG_3="
 "MOZ_LAUNCHED_CHILD="
 "MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1"



Expected results:

The link should have opened in a new tab in the current Firefox window.

Comment 1

[David Lechner (:dlech)]

I experienced this as well (TB 17, Win7 x64). In fact, if Firefox is already running, then clicking a link in Thunderbird causes an error message that Firefox is already running and is not responding.

Processes are indeed designed to inherit environment variables from the parent process, so I am guessing that this is where this comes from.