FS#1545 - firefox package: options are not passed to firefox

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Vinay S Shastry (shastry) - Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 11:33 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Wednesday, 29 September 2004, 00:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

like the topic says - options are not passed to the actual binary.
do mozilla-firefox --help and a new window will openup with --help as the URL

similarly all oprions like the -remote command and all stuff.
(application/octet-stream)    firefox (6.5 KiB)
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Closed by  Dale Blount (dale)
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 01:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Vinay S Shastry (shastry) - Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 11:35 GMT
edit: it happens only when an instance of firefox is running.
Comment by Vinay S Shastry (shastry) - Wednesday, 29 September 2004, 02:08 GMT
i think this problem is because if the very poorly written mozilla-firefox shell script.
Take a look at the script provided in the binary installer package provided by mozilla.org
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Wednesday, 29 September 2004, 02:38 GMT
Could you attach this script?
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Thursday, 14 October 2004, 01:07 GMT
fixed in 0.10.1

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