xremote is the poor's man way to embeed Mozilla in your application : http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html Of course, the most useful feature is 'openURL()', that display a web page. However, when the web page is larger than the display, we need to navigate the page. Netscape 4.7 implement the following commands : o LineUp() o LineDown() o PageUp() o PageDown() o back() o forward() o close() Mozilla, as far as 0.9, doesn't seem to implement any of these. This is simple to reproduce. If you don't have a dedicated netscape-remote client, just use "mozilla -remote 'openURL(http://www.mozilla.org)'" and then "mozilla -remote 'PageDown()'" This bug is related to bug 62250. The difference is that bug 62250 is generic and mostly deal with activating various components and features, whereas this bug is specific to the page navigation (so not a duplicate). Also, it would be useful to have somewhere a list of the commands supported in Mozilla, or pointing in the correct dirtection. Finding widget/src/gtk/nsGtkMozRemoteHelper.h is not user friendly. This bug is also related to bug 41527, bug 74987 and bug 77641. OpenURL works, but it's always better to have less bugs in it. This bug should affect all Unix platforms, but not Win/MAC. Also, it's almost a feature request, if it was not supported in Netscape 4.7. Thanks for the good work... Jean

hrm. I would have expected xremote to talk to chrome instead of talking to gtk. speaking as a person who is interested in the xlib and qt ports. I filed Bugzilla Bug 81332 Implement chrome based xremote support.

What do you mean 'talking to chrome instead of gtk?'

*** Bug 143983 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 246641 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

It would be nice to be able to print the current page to default printer or perhaps a specified printer. With this feature, and something like a cups-pdf printer, can use firefox as a powerful HTML to PDF converter (for instance).

Mass resolving a bunch of old bugs in the x-remote component in preparation for archiving it. If this bug is still valid and useful, please move it to the "Toolkit: Startup and Profile System" component and reopen it.