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If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-10-24T00:48:34+00:00 Tempsd wrote: User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 Build ID: 20110928134238 Steps to reproduce: There has been an '-app' command line option for Firefox, which should have been introduced in Firefox 3: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2007/08/using-firefox-3-as-a -xul-runtime-environment.ars ... which would have allowed Firefox to run XUL application via `firefox -app /path/to/application.ini`. However, that switch does not seem to work any longer in newer Firefoxes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5900814/does-the-app-command-line-option-work-properly-in-firefox-4 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7869546/single-file-app-with-xulrunner-possible I have performed the following test in Firefox 7 (versions as given above): * Generate a small XUL application (bash): ### mkdir xultestapp mkdir -p xultestapp/chrome/content mkdir -p xultestapp/defaults/preferences cat > xultestapp/application.ini <<"EOF" [App] Vendor=XULTest Name=xultestapp Version=1.0 BuildID=20111024 ID=xultest...@xultest.org [Gecko] MinVersion=1.8 MaxVersion=2.* EOF cat > xultestapp/chrome/chrome.manifest <<"EOF" content xultestapp content/ EOF cat > xultestapp/chrome.manifest <<"EOF" manifest chrome/chrome.manifest EOF cat > xultestapp/defaults/preferences/prefs.js <<"EOF" pref("toolkit.defaultChromeURI", "chrome://xultestapp/content/main.xul"); EOF cat > xultestapp/chrome/content/main.xul <<"EOF" <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?> <window id="main" title="xultestapp" width="300" height="300" xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul";> <caption label="Hello World"/> <separator/> <button label="More >>" /> <separator/> <description id="more-text" hidden="true">This is a simple XULRunner application. XUL is simple to use and quite powerful and can even be used on mobile devices.</description> </window> EOF ### * and now if I call xulrunner, it works: ### xulrunner xultestapp/application.ini ### Actual results: * however, if I use firefox: ### firefox -no-remote -app xultestapp/application.ini ### ... Firefox just starts as usual, ignoring the XUL application specification. Expected results: Firefox should have ran the XUL application just like xulrunner did. ---- Can anyone explain if/when/why was this option removed - and if there is a similar functionality in newer Firefoxes? Many thanks in advance, Cheers! Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/880596/comments/1 ** Changed in: firefox Status: Unknown => New ** Changed in: firefox Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880596 Title: Option '-app' missing from Firefox above version 3 Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: New Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: $ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1 $ apt-cache policy firefox firefox: Installed: 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 Candidate: 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 .... $ xulrunner --version Mozilla XULRunner 2.0 - 20110402003021 $ uname -r 2.6.38-11-generic $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 11.04 \n \l ----- There has been an '-app' command line option for Firefox, which should have been introduced in Firefox 3: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2007/08/using-firefox-3-as-a -xul-runtime-environment.ars ... which would have allowed Firefox to run XUL application via `firefox -app /path/to/application.ini`. However, that switch does not seem to work any longer in newer Firefoxes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5900814/does-the-app-command-line-option-work-properly-in-firefox-4 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7869546/single-file-app-with-xulrunner-possible I have performed the following test in Firefox 7 (versions as given above): * Generate a small XUL application (bash): ### mkdir xultestapp mkdir -p xultestapp/chrome/content mkdir -p xultestapp/defaults/preferences cat > xultestapp/application.ini <<"EOF" [App] Vendor=XULTest Name=xultestapp Version=1.0 BuildID=20111024 ID=xultest...@xultest.org [Gecko] MinVersion=1.8 MaxVersion=2.* EOF cat > xultestapp/chrome/chrome.manifest <<"EOF" content xultestapp content/ EOF cat > xultestapp/chrome.manifest <<"EOF" manifest chrome/chrome.manifest EOF cat > xultestapp/defaults/preferences/prefs.js <<"EOF" pref("toolkit.defaultChromeURI", "chrome://xultestapp/content/main.xul"); EOF cat > xultestapp/chrome/content/main.xul <<"EOF" <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?> <window id="main" title="xultestapp" width="300" height="300" xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul";> <caption label="Hello World"/> <separator/> <button label="More >>" /> <separator/> <description id="more-text" hidden="true">This is a simple XULRunner application. XUL is simple to use and quite powerful and can even be used on mobile devices.</description> </window> EOF ### * and now if I call xulrunner, it works: ### xulrunner xultestapp/application.ini ### * however, if I use firefox: ### firefox -no-remote -app xultestapp/application.ini ### ... Firefox just starts as usual, ignoring the XUL application specification. Can anyone explain if/when/why was this option removed - and if there is a similar functionality in newer Firefoxes? Many thanks in advance, Cheers! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/880596/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
