Bug 86538 - mozilla-launcher-1.29 opens the firefox profile manager too
Bug#: 86538 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: All Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: mozilla@gentoo.org Reported By: kseongcheol@yahoo.com
Component: Applications
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Summary: mozilla-launcher-1.29 opens the firefox profile manager too
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Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2005-03-24 08:26 0000
Description:   Opened: 2005-03-24 08:26 0000 
After selecting firefox and the tab in the preference of gaim,
whenever a instance of firefox is running, and I try to open up the links of gaim,
the links opens into the tab but the profile manager pops up too.
And the same in liferea, xfhelp4.

In case of xfhelp4, a new window opens up, but the profile manager too.

My..
firefox is 1.0.2
mozilla-launcher is 1.29

------- Comment #1 From Alexey Maximov 2005-03-24 19:35:12 0000 ------- 
Also I get small window at center of screen with title "Gecko" if I try run
firefox twice or more. if I try clean /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox - it
works well 

fix needed. I can make screenshots if it is actually.

------- Comment #2 From Kim Seongcheol 2005-03-24 21:40:44 0000 ------- 
Added this line to my .xinitrc
export MOZILLA_NEWTYPE="tab"

And I select firefox and browser default in the preference of gaim and lifere,
the links open into the tab without any problem.
But xfhelp4 still pops up the profile manager.

------- Comment #3 From Ben Davis 2005-03-25 08:59:36 0000 ------- 
I also had the problem where a small gecko window would open up whenever I
launched a new firefox window.  The solution for me was to put
MOZILLA_NEWTYPE='window' in /etc/profile.env.  The mozilla-launcher ebuild
should do this for you, I'm not sure how to make an ebuild do this so maybe
someone else can make a patch?

------- Comment #4 From P Nienaber 2005-03-25 13:22:52 0000 ------- 
I second the fact that the clobbering-of-old-pages default behavior in the
newer mozilla-launcher versions is stupid and that the ebuilds should do what
Ben said.

------- Comment #5 From Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2005-03-26 15:34:38 0000 ------- 
Alexey, the bug you report in comment #1 is duplicate of bug 86458, was fixed
in mozilla-launcher-1.30, and is unrelated to the original report in this bug.

Ben, you need to either configure your browser, or set MOZILLA_LAUNCHER in the
environment yourself now.  I modified the default to use openURL(url) without
specifying new-window or new-tab so that browser preferences can take effect. 
See bug 82653.  Setting it in /etc/env.d would effectively bring back the old
behavior of overriding browser prefs.

Kim, one problem you're hitting is that xfhelp4 incorrectly calls "firefox -a
firefox".  The -a option only applies to mozilla-xremote-client, not the
firefox binary, so I'm not sure what they were thinking when they wrote that. 
Anyway, I fixed mozilla-launcher to handle that situation in version 1.31, now
in portage.

I'm checking into the other things reported by Kim to determine if they are
still issues.  Please add comments to this bug only if you believe they are
directly related.

------- Comment #6 From Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2005-03-26 16:05:22 0000 ------- 
Kim, I tested from gaim and everything seems to be working.  Please re-open
this bug if it is still broken for you.