I have customized all the chrome (for a kiosk) in my version of firefox. When I have a firefox window running with the new chrome, and I fire up another window with:

/usr/bin/firefox -remote "openURL([google URL])"

It opens a new window with the old chrome instead of loading google.com into the already active firefox window. I have tried many different chromes (not just mine) and they all seem to have the same behavior.

If there are no chrome customizations, then

/usr/bin/firefox -remote "openURL([google URL])"

correctly opens up google in the current firefox window.

Specifying the chrome for the -remote command also does not work
eg. /usr/bin/firefox -remote "openURL([google URL])" -chrome chrome://kiosk/content/kiosk2.xul). It opens a new window with the old chrome.

Any thoughts as to why I can't seem to get -remote open up a new URL in the already existing window despite the custom chrome?

/usr/bin/firefox -remote "ping()" works just fine (exit 0), chrome or not.

Using TWM as window manager.

Any help is appreciated.

MK