Package: mozilla-firefox
Version: 1.0.1-2
Severity: important
I use the -P option for starting firefox from two different icons so I can
automatically run it with two different profiles. One of my profile names
has a space in. At some point a few months back it stopped working properly
and appeared to pass arguments with a space in as multiple arguments to
the firefox binary.
I've now investigated and it appears that the problem is that in the
/usr/bin/firefox script in the exec_verbose function. On the line which
reads:
exec $@
I believe it should read:
exec "$@"
I have made this change on my local system and things appear to work
again.
To reproduce the bug set up a profile called "Alternative User" and
from the command line do:
firefox -P "Alternative User"
You will find that with the bug firefox will probably prompt you to manually
pick which profile to use (because it's trying to find the profile "Alternative"
which it doesn't find) and after picking the profile, it then
goes to http://www.user.com/.
After making the change I've suggested it instead correctly starts with the
profile specified as an argument.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages mozilla-firefox depends on:
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ii fontconfig 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.3-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkrb53 1.3.6-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
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ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System printing extension
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii psmisc 21.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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