Bug 99508 – firefox 1.0.5/1.0.6 does not start if homepage is a chrome:// URL

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ivan Yosifov 2005-07-19 03:40:40 UTC]

I am using Habari Xenu ( http://habarixenu.mozdev.org/ ) as my news reader. To
access the plugin's interface one has to open the URL
"chrome://habarixenu/content/xhtml/habarixenu.xhtml". If I set this as my
homepage upon firefox startup I get:

obelix@home ~ $ firefox
No running windows found

(firefox-bin:17474): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has
wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
*** Preventing external load of chrome: URI into browser window
    Use -chrome <uri> instead
obelix@home ~ $

This used to work with the 1.0.4* ebuilds.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:





Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer
-momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer
-momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ITDNet.net/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts
bonobo cdr crypt cups curl directfb doc dvd dvdr eds emboss encode flac
foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal howl imagemagick
imlib ipv6 ithreads java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal ldap libg++ libwww mad
mikmod mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg
oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png postgres pthreads python qt
quicktime readline sdl session sharedmem spell sse sse2 ssl svga symlink tcltk
tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb
vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_en userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Ivan Yosifov 2005-07-20 02:04:19 UTC]

Same problem with 1.0.6.

[Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt 2005-07-20 22:14:28 UTC]

I have confirmed will see what I can find.

[Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt 2005-12-11 15:33:13 UTC]

Is this still an issue please post if no responce in 72 hours will close as
NEEDINFO.

[Comment 4 Ivan Yosifov 2005-12-11 21:41:37 UTC]

Looks like the issue is gone in Firefox 1.6.