Bug 208371

Summary: Firefox command line in Preferred Applications does not work
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: romal <linux>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Fixed In Version: control-center-2.16.0-9 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description romal 2006-09-28 06:10:58 UTC
Description of problem:

Firefox does not start when clicking a link in mails, terminal, ...

The command line 

firefox -remote "openurl(%s,new-tab)"

when selecting "Open in a new tab" in preferred applications does not work.

[root@helios ~]# firefox -remote "openurl("http://www.romal.de",new-tab)"
[root@helios ~]# Error: No running window found

It works only, if a Firefox is already running.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Rawhide 2009-09-28

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure Preferred Applications to open "Link in a new tab".
2. Click a link in a terminal or email.
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Comment 1 Christopher Aillon 2006-09-28 16:38:24 UTC
Hm.  That option is rather new to me.  Firefox links from outside applications
should open in a new tab without doing any work.  Why did you set that?  Does it
not work without that?

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2006-09-29 05:24:00 UTC
You may be right that "firefox foo" is good enough for opening foo in a tab,
but we still need a way to open foo in a new window.

Comment 3 romal 2006-09-29 07:18:22 UTC
Hi,

yes. I played around with firefox -newtab foo, but that does not work either.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

All the options work, when Firefox is running already. But without a running
Firefox, nothing happens.


Comment 4 Christopher Aillon 2006-09-29 20:11:19 UTC
I just commited a fix to control-center which prevents the user from setting
this.  If you want to override the preferences for Firefox for now, use
Edit>Preferences>Tabs from within Firefox.