834660 - Commandline arguments ignored on Mac OS if TB already running

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[jochenzimmermann]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130116073211

Steps to reproduce:

Execute the shell command:
     open -a Thunderbird --args -compose



Actual results:

If TB is not running: A new email compose window is opened, this is desired behaviour.

IF TB is running: The TB window gets focussed but nothing happens. Also no errors in the ErrorConsole.


Expected results:

I believe, the expected behaviour is that in both cases, a new email compose window opens.

Bugs 732943 and 380163 might be related.

Further possibly relevant remark: Similar issue in Firefox when running
   open -a Firefox --args http://foo.bar
however
   open -a Firefox http://google.de
always works.

Comment 1

[Boris Lau]

Same for me, Mac OS X 10.8.2, TB 17.0.4
Best Boris

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Assuming this still fails on Mac.

FWIW, the following works in windows 
 thunderbird -compose