browse-url-firefox: update for firefox 36's removal of -remote

Ref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080319

* lisp/net/browse-url.el (browse-url-firefox-startup-arguments):
Make obsolete.
(browse-url-firefox): Doc fix.  Remove -remote.
(browse-url-firefox-sentinel): Remove function.

* etc/NEWS: Mention this.

Fixes: debbugs:19921
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Glenn Morris 2015-02-24 18:02:11 -05:00
parent 18178922a8
commit 1b0ebbdb56
3 changed files with 37 additions and 53 deletions

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@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
** `call-process-shell-command' and `process-file-shell-command' no longer
take "&rest args".
** The option `browse-url-firefox-startup-arguments' no longer has an effect.
** ERC
*** New option `erc-rename-buffers'.

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@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
2015-02-24 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* net/browse-url.el (browse-url-firefox-startup-arguments):
Make obsolete.
(browse-url-firefox): Doc fix. Remove -remote, which no longer
exists in Firefox 36. (Bug#19921)
(browse-url-firefox-sentinel): Remove function.
2015-02-23 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* frame.el (blink-cursor-timer-function): Don't increment

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@ -337,6 +337,9 @@ Defaults to the value of `browse-url-firefox-arguments' at the time
:type '(repeat (string :tag "Argument"))
:group 'browse-url)
(make-obsolete-variable 'browse-url-firefox-startup-arguments
"it no longer has any effect." "24.5")
(defcustom browse-url-chromium-program
(let ((candidates '("chromium" "chromium-browser")))
(while (and candidates (not (executable-find (car candidates))))
@ -1102,68 +1105,39 @@ used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
;;;###autoload
(defun browse-url-firefox (url &optional new-window)
"Ask the Firefox WWW browser to load URL.
Default to the URL around or before point. The strings in
variable `browse-url-firefox-arguments' are also passed to
Firefox.
Defaults to the URL around or before point. Passes the strings
in the variable `browse-url-firefox-arguments' to Firefox.
When called interactively, if variable
`browse-url-new-window-flag' is non-nil, load the document in a
new Firefox window, otherwise use a random existing one. A
non-nil interactive prefix argument reverses the effect of
`browse-url-new-window-flag'.
Interactively, if the variable `browse-url-new-window-flag' is non-nil,
loads the document in a new Firefox window. A non-nil prefix argument
reverses the effect of `browse-url-new-window-flag'.
If `browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab' is non-nil, then
whenever a document would otherwise be loaded in a new window, it
is loaded in a new tab in an existing window instead.
When called non-interactively, optional second argument
NEW-WINDOW is used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'.
Non-interactively, this uses the optional second argument NEW-WINDOW
instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'.
On MS-Windows systems the optional `new-window' parameter is
ignored. Firefox for Windows does not support the \"-remote\"
command line parameter. Therefore, the
`browse-url-new-window-flag' and `browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab'
are ignored as well. Firefox on Windows will always open the requested
URL in a new window."
On MS Windows, this ignores `browse-url-new-window-flag' and
`browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab', as well as the NEW-WINDOW argument.
It always uses a new window."
(interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
(setq url (browse-url-encode-url url))
(let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment))
(use-remote
(not (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos))))
(process
(apply 'start-process
(concat "firefox " url) nil
browse-url-firefox-program
(append
browse-url-firefox-arguments
(if use-remote
(list "-remote"
(concat
"openURL("
url
(if (browse-url-maybe-new-window new-window)
(if browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab
",new-tab"
",new-window"))
")"))
(list url))))))
;; If we use -remote, the process exits with status code 2 if
;; Firefox is not already running. The sentinel runs firefox
;; directly if that happens.
(when use-remote
(set-process-sentinel process
`(lambda (process change)
(browse-url-firefox-sentinel process ,url))))))
(defun browse-url-firefox-sentinel (process url)
"Handle a change to the process communicating with Firefox."
(or (eq (process-exit-status process) 0)
(let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment)))
;; Firefox is not running - start it
(message "Starting Firefox...")
(apply 'start-process (concat "firefox " url) nil
browse-url-firefox-program
(append browse-url-firefox-startup-arguments (list url))))))
(let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment)))
(apply 'start-process
(concat "firefox " url) nil
browse-url-firefox-program
(append
browse-url-firefox-arguments
;; FIXME someone should check if this limitation
;; still applies.
(unless (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos))
(if (browse-url-maybe-new-window new-window)
(if browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab
'("-new-tab")
'("-new-window"))))
(list url)))))
;;;###autoload
(defun browse-url-chromium (url &optional _new-window)