Trying to run remote commands causes a new firefox window to open and not to create a new tab even when thus specified nor does it react to the url provided Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: firefox compiled as: [ebuild R ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-0.8 +gnome +gtk2 +ipv6 +java -moznoxft 1. run firefox 2. firefox -remote 'openURL(gentoo.org,new-tab)' Actual Results: firefox first opened nicely and when attempting to send the remote commands it did nothing about the command but just opened a new browser window. Expected Results: opened the given url in a new tab. It has worked for me on different distributions, but somehow not with gentoo... Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -msse -mmmx -m3dnow -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frerun-loop-opt -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb doc dvd dvdr encode esd fbcon foomaticdb freetype gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 guile imap imlib ipv6 jabber java joystick jpeg kde kerberos libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla mpeg mpeg4 ncurses nls nptl nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sasl sdl slang spell sse ssl stroke svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype type1 unicode usb video_cards_nvidia vim-with-x wmf x86 xchattext xine xml2 xmms xv zlib"
On my system, it opens the new tab regardless of "-remote"... :-) So the situation here just the other side of the coin... :-)
I have the same problem. I think the startup script is broken; when I run it, I get this output: % firefox -remote 'openURL(gentoo.org,new-tab)' /usr/bin/firefox: array assign: line 22: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /usr/bin/firefox: array assign: line 22: `-remote openURL(gentoo.org,new-tab)' and, as indicated below, a new tab with no contents. On the other hand, if I run the binary program, like this: % /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin -remote 'openURL(gentoo.org,new-tab)' I get a new tab, as expected.
Well, looks like my firefox is working now okay, version 0.8-r1.
All of the problems reported in this bug have been fixed previously. Please run "emerge --sync" then do one of the following: emerge mozilla-firefox OR cp /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla-firefox/files/firefox /usr/bin
