Re: mozilla-xremote-client with profiles not working?

Hi Brian,

[email protected] wrote:
> I have an application built on top of firefox that I need running in
> addition to my standard firefox browser. I use mozilla-xremote-client
> to open up links from thunderbird (and others). My problem is that I
> often get a new tab in my application rather than the main firefox
> window.

You can change this in the preferences of firefox. There is an option 
where you can define if links from outside should be opened in a new 
tab, a new window or in the actual tab.

But this works here:

mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openUrl(http://slashdot.org, new-window)"

You can use new-tab instead of new-window if you want the url to open in 
a new tab.

> My application runs with a different profile than the main window, so I
> thought
> "mozilla-xremote-client -p appprofile" would work, but no such luck. It
> always
> says that it "Failed to find a running server."

Mh. You're right. If you give a profile with the remote-client he is not 
able to find a running instance, even if I have a window with this 
profile running.
With Mozilla it works. With firefox it doesn't.

> I looked at the source
> a little bit, and it seems that iot is looking for a window with the
> specified value in the _MOZILLA_PROFILE property, but it doesn't seem
> to be set. In fact, I can't find this property being set by firefox at
> all. It seems quite odd that mozilla-xremote-client would check for a
> property that firefox does not set.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

The remote controls of mozilla/firefox are sp insufficient. It's a pity, 
I think. It would be great to be able to open mails, tabs, browser 
windows, whatever from other applications.

No idea how you can solve this.
Perhaps creating a new profile for your application so you don't have to 
connect to a started instance?

Regards
Paul.