Bug#675544: iceweasel: apparent change in the meaning of -no-remote

[Dallas E. Legan]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 10.0.4esr-2
Severity: minor

Previously, when an instance of iceweasel was running,
issuing a command 
iceweasel -no-remote .....
meant to open a new instance, not to use the already running one.
Now it seems that this switch means that an instance of iceweasel
launched using it is not to accept 'remote' commands
such as iceweasel  -new-tab | -new-window    http://....
This caused me to open a bug report a few days ago, 
that was quickly closed out after I managed to open some 
new tabs/windows after a (compared to my normal proceedure)
convoluted launch of iceweasel.
Someone should verify this behaviour experimentally,
or by code inspection, or communication with the appropriate
programmer, and then tweak the documentation (including --help)
of -no-remote appropriately.
Thanks for any consideration, all past and future efforts,
and you patience with me.  :-)

Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / legan at acm.org / aw585 at lafn.org
http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils                  4.1         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig                   2.8.0-2.2   generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                        2.13-10     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0           2.23.5-2    GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.28.6-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.24.4-3    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4-0d                  4.8.9-1     NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libstdc++6                   4.6.1-4     GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                       1:3.2.8-2   /proc file system utilities
ii  xulrunner-10.0               10.0.4esr-2 XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10+dfsg~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  mathematica-fonts [ttf 13                Installer of Mathematica fonts
ii  mozplugger             1.13.0-1          Plugin allowing external viewers t
ii  ttf-lyx                2.0.3-2           transitional package
ii  ttf-mathematica4.1     13                transitional dummy package
ii  xfonts-mathml          4                 Type1 Symbol font for MathML

Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 depends on:
ii  libasound2       1.0.25-2                shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0      2.0.1-2                 ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0       1.0.5-6                 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6            2.13-10                 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2        1.10.2-6                The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3      1.4.12-5                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2 0.94-4                  simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-2.0-5   2.0.16-stable-1         Asynchronous event notification li
ii  libfontconfig1   2.8.0-2.2               generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6     2.4.4-1                 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1          1:4.6.1-4               GCC support library
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0 2.23.5-2                GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.28.6-1                The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0      2.24.4-3                The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1.3- 1.3.2-4                 spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg8         8c-1                    The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmozjs10d      10.0.4esr-2             Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript li
ii  libnotify4       0.7.4-1                 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libnspr4-0d      4.8.9-1                 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d       3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0    1.28.4-1                Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0    0.22.2-1                pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libreadline6     6.1-3                   GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsqlite3-0     3.7.9-2                 SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstartup-notif 0.10-1                  library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++6       4.6.1-4                 GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvpx1          1.0.0-2                 VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libx11-6         2:1.4.1-5               X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6         2:1.2.0-2               X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxrender1      1:0.9.6-2               X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6           1:1.1.1-1               X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.6.dfsg-2          compression library - runtime

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