Bug#501363: Subject: iceweasel: cannot run iceweasel from command line within script

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 06:54:56PM +0200, Bostjan Vilfan wrote:
> Followup-For: Bug #501363
> Package: iceweasel
> 
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>       I wanted to open three URLs in iceweasel in separate tabs.
>       so I wrote a script with the following contents:
> 
>      iceweasel URL-1
>      iceweasel -new-tab URL-2
>      iceweasel -new-tab URL-3
> 
>     When I ran the script, only URL-1 got opened

There's no way to fix this. You're essentially in race condition land.
You need to pause between the first and second line.

This is also unrelated to bug #501363.

Mike