98764 - -remote 'openURL("xyz")' while no browser window up causes an unchromed browser window to display

Status: CLOSED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: X-remote, defect)

Description

[Michael Leary]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010907
BuildID:    2001090708

launching:

 /path/to/mozilla/mozilla -remote "openURL($url,new-window)"

via a script (where $url is one) only resets the open browser to a fresh, blank
browser, wiping out the page you were looking at, disabling the back button, and
not launching the URL.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I'm using url_handler.sh, but this should repro just by using commandline
similar to above.

Actual Results:  see description

Expected Results:  old window is OK
new window has URL

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

->blizzard

Reporter: X-remote is being completely re-written. look at bug 98603 for
details.  I haven't seen it broken as badly as you describe.  The worst I've
seen it get is the way i described in bug 94289.  Is that what you are talking
about?

Comment 2

[Michael Leary]

bug 94289 is probably related, but is not what I'm seeing.  What I see looks
like a fresh, normal browser instance with a blank document area.  It's a
working browser, but if I'd had any data in a form, it would be gone.  That's
data loss == critical.

Comment 3

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Fixed.

Comment 4

[Michael Leary]

verified in 2001090721

closing

Comment 5

[Len Trigg]

BTW, this was probably a duplicate of bug 90580