93639 - All Command-Line arguments ignored

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, defect)

Description

[Jim Roland]

Most/all command-line arguments ignored in Linux Mozilla rel 0.92.
Require command-line and keyboards bugs fixed to use mozilla in secure cyber
cafe setting.  Confirmed are being passed to mozilla and mozilla-bin, but
program ignores them (no report of error).

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter :

Which commandline arguments doesn't work ?
"mozilla -profilemanager" and "mozilla -console" should work....

-> XP APPS CMD-Line Features

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Jim, which command-line arguments are you passing?

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

-P, -help, -profilemanager work for me using 2001.08.06.08 comm bits. if this is
still a problem with a recent build, let us know what command[s] you're using
and reopend.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of WorksForMe bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this,
set your search string to "IfItWorksForSlappyTheSquirrelThenItWFM".

if you think this particular bug is *still* an open issue, please make sure of
the following before reopening:

a. that it's still a problem with ***recent trunk builds*** on the all
appropriate platform[s]

b. provide clear steps to reproduce (unless a good test case is already in the
bug report), making sure it pertains to the original problem (avoid morphing as
much as possible :)