Bug 44140 – PATCH: /usr/bin/firefox handles local files

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description John Russell 2004-03-09 08:24:09 UTC]

This patch adds a check in the /usr/bin/firefox script to see if any of the command line urls are local files.  If they are, it prepends the pwd to the basename so that firebird will open the file.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run /usr/bin/firefox <localfile>
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
firefox tries to find the local file as a remote host and usually fails.

Expected Results:  
It should open the local file.

[Comment 1 John Russell 2004-03-09 08:24:43 UTC]

Created attachment 27099 [details, diff]
adds local file support to /usr/bin/firefox script

[Comment 2 John Russell 2004-03-09 12:24:27 UTC]

Created attachment 27106 [details, diff]
Replacement patch for local file support

Please disregard the first patch, it didn't open firefox if there were no
arguments specified.  This patch fixes that.

[Comment 3 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-03-17 19:07:38 UTC]

Created attachment 27536 [details, diff]
simpler patch

I think this does the same thing bug is much simpler.  Please test.

[Comment 4 John Russell 2004-03-18 06:23:15 UTC]

You're right, this is much simpler.  I tested it on relative paths, absolute paths and ones with ../../ in them.  It all seems to work well.  Thanks for the new patch.

[Comment 5 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-03-18 18:29:28 UTC]

Thanks for testing.  I committed this change.