[Bug 251340] Re: Firefox ignores URLs on command line

[Alexander Sack]

could you please narrow down the regression window by installing the
releases we did to dapper until you find the one that introduced this?

You can find the uploads we made
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+source/firefox

just start with the latest ... then go for the one before that and so on
(until you find the release that doesnt show this anymore). Thanks!

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu Dapper)
   Importance: Undecided => High
       Status: New => Triaged
       Target: None => dapper-updates

** Summary changed:

- Firefox ignores URLs on command line
+ MASTER (dapper regression) - Firefox ignores URLs on command line

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu Dapper)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Alexander Sack (asac)

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: firefox
+ 
+ When using the newest firefox from dapper-security, specifically
+ 1.5dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614e-0ubuntu3 (dapper-security)
+ and about firefox reports 1.5.0.12eol
+ I have the following problem.
+ Running a current Dapper system.
+ 
+ -Make sure firefox is *not* running.
+ -right click on a http:// link in gnome-terminal, and choose the option
+   'Open Link'
+ -firefox starts, and shows a blank page
+ -if you again right click on a link in gnome-terminal, and choose 'open
+   link, the link is displayed in firefox. so the problem is only when firefox
+   is not already running.
+ 
+ Using synaptic, I installed
+ 1.5dfsg+1.5.0.3-0ubuntu3 (dapper)
+ and about firefox reports 1.5.0.3
+ 
+ With this older version, with firefox not running, if you right click a link
+ firefox opens, and displays the desired page.
+ 
+ The same behavior can be duplicated with emacs and the 'browse-url'
+ function, which is why I am reporting this as a firefox bug and not a
+ gnome-terminal bug.
+ 
+ ==========
  
  Recently upgraded Firefox to 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614d-0ubuntu1
  from dapper-security and it now ignores URLs given on the command line,
  meaning that clicking on links in email, and desktop "launchers",
  display the Firefox start page rather than the intended page.
  
  The Firefox wrapper script appears to "do the right thing" - ps shows a command like
    /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox http://example.com/
  but Firefox loads its start page and the location bar is empty.
  
  I tried launching firefox-bin directly just to confirm, and the
  behaviour is the same.
  
  Thanks,
  
  
  John Pearson.

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MASTER (dapper regression) - Firefox ignores URLs on command line
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251340
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