No Running Window Found

Hi All,

I was trying an auto login script for facebook using perl, and I encountered an error message while i was trying to launch the browser from the script.

I have pasted below the module that I was using to launch the browser. Looks to me like its a bug. Can anyone please suggest me a workaround ?

1) First Method I used :

my $launchBrowser = 'firefox -remote \"openURL($linkURL)\"';
if ( fork() == 0)
{
   exec($launchBrowser);
}

2) Method 2 :

 my $launchBrowser = '/usr/bin/firefox -a firefox -remote  \"openURL('$linkURL',new-tab)\"';
if ( fork() == 0 )
{
    exec ( $launchBrowser);
}

Both these method return the same error message,
Error: No running window found

Thanks,
Harsha

Tags: Perl, Shell, Ubuntu, Linux, Firefox