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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: daemon fox?
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:40:48
Message-Id: 20191117174028.ps2mf4h6auvydtiw@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] daemon fox? by Mick
1 On 2019-11-17 10:28, Mick wrote:
2
3 > On Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:24:34 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote:
4
5 > > Is it possible to start firefox as a daemon, ie. without opening any
6 > > windows, and later connect to it as needed to display URLs? I have
7 > > in mind something similar to "emacs --daemon".
8 >
9 > Wouldn't such a behaviour have security implications? Can you have a
10 > daemon spawning new window instances, but each one sandboxed
11 > separately?
12
13 I don't see how it would be different, security-wise, from opening a new
14 window in a fully-fledged graphical fox when I run "firefox $URL" from
15 the command line, and that's what happens now.
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