Bug#402628: iceape fails to use -remote openURL correctly

[Brad Barnett]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:49:48 +0100
Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:13:56AM -0500, Brad Barnett <lists at l8r.net>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:08:22 +0100
> > Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:57:05PM -0500, Brad Barnett wrote:
> > > > Package: iceape-browser
> > > > Version: 1.0.6-1
> > > > 
> > > > Iceape fails to use openURL correctly.  For example:
> > > 
> > > Maybe this is due to our current startup script. Anyway, Brad, can
> > > you please verify that this feature works for mozilla.org seamonkey?
> > 
> > 
> > Something is definitely borked with Seamonkey.
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> > firefox -remote 'openurl(http://test.url/,newtab)'
> > 
> > works fine.
> > 
> > ./seamonkey -remote 'openURL(http://test.url/,newtab)'
> > 
> > does not work...
> > 
> > iceape -remote 'openURL(http://test.url/,newtab)'
> > 
> > does not work...
> 
> That's a feature. Iceape/Seamonkey don't implement that as of version
> 1.0.x. Haven't checked with 1.1.

After receiving this email, I headed over to the Bugzilla page.  It
doesn't seem to be a feature to me, in fact, it looks like many people
filed bug reports and there were attempts to solve it.

I would have headed to the bugzilla page before, but I couldn't believe
that a feature that has existed for.. oh.. 15 years.. would break and be
left unfixed. I was positive this was a minor Debian issue.

Mike, what makes you think this is a feature?  I certainly can not believe
it is a feature, considering 15 years or so of Netscape -> Mozilla
application opening would be broken by such.