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On Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:24:34 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> Is it possible to start firefox as a daemon, ie. without opening any |
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> windows, and later connect to it as needed to display URLs? I have in |
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> mind something similar to "emacs --daemon". |
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Wouldn't such a behaviour have security implications? Can you have a daemon |
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spawning new window instances, but each one sandboxed separately? |
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> I had some hopes for "firefox --headless" but that doesn't do what I |
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> want: later "firefox $URL" will not connect to the running one but will |
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> start a new instance. |
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I think this is by design, but I am not well versed in the innards of FF. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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