Bug 134396

Summary:	firefox -remote does not handle URLs with a comma in them
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	plasmahh
Version:	Alpha 3
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Andreas Jaeger 2005-11-18 14:00:05 UTC

With both RC1 (from alpha3) and a self build RC3 (Wolfgang, grabbed your submission) using a URL with a comma in it does not work from other programs.

Try:

firefox -remote 'openURL(http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0,1518,385708,00.html,new-tab)'

firefox will try to open "http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0" - removing everything after the comma.

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-11-21 07:43:50 UTC

Interesting. It works with SeaMonkey but not with Firefox.

Comment 2 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-11-21 08:13:01 UTC

urgs, Firefox uses a completely different remote handling now.

now filed under
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317255

Comment 3 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-11-21 09:46:45 UTC

*** Bug 131736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-11-21 15:04:26 UTC

OK. I've learned now that the usage of -remote is deprecated. A fix for this bug is not planned at the moment (1.5 timeframe). The official way to open URLs with 1.5 is to just call "firefox URL". There is no replacement for the new-tab stuff as there is a global setting for this in the firefox preferences.
Andreas, should we try to fix the remote behaviour for 10.1 in that case?

Comment 5 Andreas Jaeger 2005-11-22 08:13:03 UTC

new-tab is supposed to work and I tested it as well:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304469

I suggest that we change the apps that use firefox -remote to use the new way.

Comment 6 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-11-22 08:26:15 UTC

You are right.
I'll write a notice to packagers to announce the change as I don't know which packages are using this style.

As we might have to update to 1.5 for NLD and co., we should try to fix the "old way".

Comment 7 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-11-22 08:41:06 UTC

I think "normal" is OK for the fix in that case.

Comment 8 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-12-09 16:21:12 UTC

fixed with coming checkin

Comment 9 Karl Eichwalder 2006-02-08 07:35:48 UTC

It's mention in the manual (update chapter); if wanted we can add it to the release notes as well.

Comment 10 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-02-08 09:23:19 UTC

Karl, what is mentioned in the manual?
We fixed Firefox to accept commas in those statements again.
If the manual states the new scheme to open new windows, that's fine and I don't think that it's needed in the release notes.