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

Bug #251340 reported by John Pearson on 2008-07-24

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	Dapper	Fix Released	High	Alexander Sack	Ubuntu dapper-updates

Bug Description

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.

See original description

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-11-02:

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:
status:	New → Invalid
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → dapper-updates
status:	New → Triaged
assignee:	nobody → asac
description:	updated

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-11-02:

we need a narrower regression window.

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Ben Blout (bdb-new) wrote on 2008-11-02:

I did the command
$ sudo dpkg -i firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614c-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

And then firefox exhibits the correct behaviour - opens links from the command line, etc.

then I did
$ sudo dpkg -i firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614d-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

And firefox exhibits this bug - won't open a link from the command line, etc.

Is this the information you need?

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-11-02:

please get the sources for the 14d build ... there should be patches/441120_attachment_328852x.patch ... just reverse patch that, build and see if removing that patch makes the problem go away. thanks.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-11-02:

let me know if you cannot do it ... i would do it during next run then.

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Ben Blout (bdb-new) wrote on 2008-11-02:

building and patching are at the limit of what I know how to do - they are certainly outside my comfort zone. So testing this as you requested would be a struggle for me to get right. I could figure it out, I am sure, but I don't have time in the next few weeks.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-11-03:

updated patch with loadTabs backport Edit (10.8 KiB, text/plain)

regression fix attempt. this seems to work for me. Please help testing the next preview packages for dapper so we can track down regressions earlier :) .... subscribe to the archive now. the upload will hopefully happen soon :)

The stable release update preview archive is:

http://launchpad.net/~asac/+archive

I only upload security/stability previews there, so this is less dangerous. dapper needs more testers, so would be happy to welcome you. In case you find a regression when an upload comes in, dont hestitate to ping me on irc. good channel would be #ubuntu-mozillateam

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-11-11: Re: [Bug 251340] Re: MASTER (dapper regression) - Firefox ignores URLs on command line

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:36:26PM -0000, Alexander Sack wrote:
> regression fix attempt. this seems to work for me. Please help testing
> the next preview packages for dapper so we can track down regressions
> earlier :) .... subscribe to the archive now. the upload will hopefully
> happen soon :)
>
> The stable release update preview archive is:
>
> http://launchpad.net/~asac/+archive

New packages should be there now.

- Alexander

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Ben Blout (bdb-new) wrote on 2008-11-13:

I've been using the preview version for my regular desktop browsing the last two days. The bug is definitely fixed. I have noticed no glaring problems with the new verstion.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-12-26:

#10

forgot to close, but this was fixed in updated firefox package: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614i-0ubuntu1