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

[Pedro Gimeno]

This explains part of the story and gives the relevant pointers:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716361

As explained in comment #6 there, this bug was introduced as a fix to:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650078

and broke the case where -ProfileManager was used in conjunction with
-no-remote to launch a new instance. That use case was addressed in

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716110

which introduces a new flag, -new-instance, to do what -no-remote was
doing before.

The patch (present in 716110 linked above) is pretty simple and it
should be possible to backport it to Wheezy. I am affected by it as
well. Currently I have to launch Iceweasel without -no-remote for the
first instance, and with it for the other instances, in order to get a
similar workflow as before.

Alternatively, Iceweasel can also be patched in Wheezy to undo this commit:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ba38da32b848

in order to recover the old behaviour of -no-remote.

-- Pedro Gimeno