Bugzilla – Bug 134396
firefox -remote does not handle URLs with a comma in them
Last modified: 2006-02-08 09:23:19 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.
Interesting. It works with SeaMonkey but not with Firefox.
urgs, Firefox uses a completely different remote handling now. now filed under https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317255
*** Bug 131736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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?
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.
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".
I think "normal" is OK for the fix in that case.
fixed with coming checkin
It's mention in the manual (update chapter); if wanted we can add it to the release notes as well.
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.