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Subject: iceweasel: apparent change in the meaning of -no-remote
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:18:17 -0700
Package: iceweasel
Version: 10.0.4esr-2
Severity: minor
Previously, when an instance of iceweasel was running,
issuing a command
iceweasel -no-remote .....
meant to open a new instance, not to use the already running one.
Now it seems that this switch means that an instance of iceweasel
launched using it is not to accept 'remote' commands
such as iceweasel -new-tab | -new-window http://....
This caused me to open a bug report a few days ago,
that was quickly closed out after I managed to open some
new tabs/windows after a (compared to my normal proceedure)
convoluted launch of iceweasel.
Someone should verify this behaviour experimentally,
or by code inspection, or communication with the appropriate
programmer, and then tweak the documentation (including --help)
of -no-remote appropriately.
Thanks for any consideration, all past and future efforts,
and you patience with me. :-)
Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / [email protected] / [email protected]http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com
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-- Package-specific info:
-- Addons package information
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 4.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.2 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.5-2 GDK Pixbuf library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.9-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-4 GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.8-2 /proc file system utilities
ii xulrunner-10.0 10.0.4esr-2 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10+dfsg~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii mathematica-fonts [ttf 13 Installer of Mathematica fonts
ii mozplugger 1.13.0-1 Plugin allowing external viewers t
ii ttf-lyx 2.0.3-2 transitional package
ii ttf-mathematica4.1 13 transitional dummy package
ii xfonts-mathml 4 Type1 Symbol font for MathML
Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.25-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libatk1.0-0 2.0.1-2 ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.12-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.94-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.16-stable-1 Asynchronous event notification li
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-4 GCC support library
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0 2.23.5-2 GDK Pixbuf library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.3- 1.3.2-4 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg8 8c-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmozjs10d 10.0.4esr-2 Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript li
ii libnotify4 0.7.4-1 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.9-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpixman-1-0 0.22.2-1 pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.9-2 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstartup-notif 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-4 GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libvpx1 1.0.0-2 VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.1-5 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.2.0-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.6.dfsg-2 compression library - runtime
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(Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Re: iceweasel: apparent change in the meaning of -no-remote
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 01:48:44 +0200
This explains part of the story and gives the relevant pointers:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716361
As explained in comment #6 there, this bug was introduced as a fix to:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650078
and broke the case where -ProfileManager was used in conjunction with
-no-remote to launch a new instance. That use case was addressed in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716110
which introduces a new flag, -new-instance, to do what -no-remote was
doing before.
The patch (present in 716110 linked above) is pretty simple and it
should be possible to backport it to Wheezy. I am affected by it as
well. Currently I have to launch Iceweasel without -no-remote for the
first instance, and with it for the other instances, in order to get a
similar workflow as before.
Alternatively, Iceweasel can also be patched in Wheezy to undo this commit:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ba38da32b848
in order to recover the old behaviour of -no-remote.
-- Pedro Gimeno
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