Netscape Communicator provides a remote interface so that you can connect to an existing netscape process and bring up a new window from the command line. I would like similar functionality in mozilla. Specifically, I want to be able to construct a commandline command to bring up a) a new browser window, and b) the mail program. It may be more convenient to make the mozilla command check if an existing mozilla is running, and if so, open up a new window in it instead. And then provide another front end command to bring up the mailer in a similar fashion.

over to xpa cmdline features, this is a dupe though, could not find it.

Bug 8578 mentions this enhancement.

dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8578 ***

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