system firefox returns false. Why?

[zak]

Hi!
Nothing happens typing the following:

C:\>irb
irb(main):001:0> system "firefox.exe"
=> false
irb(main):002:0> exit


while this command opens firefox:
C:\>firefox.exe

C:\>

how comes? any ideas?
Thanks

 

[Chris Kottom]

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I'm not on a Windows machine, so I can't replicate, but system should return
false if the command exits with a non-zero status. Maybe it's a problem
internal to Firefox on Win? Seems to work as expected on Linux FWIW.