Re: [gentoo-user] daemon fox?

[Mick]

On Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:24:34 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Is it possible to start firefox as a daemon, ie. without opening any
> windows, and later connect to it as needed to display URLs?  I have in
> mind something similar to "emacs --daemon".

Wouldn't such a behaviour have security implications?  Can you have a daemon 
spawning new window instances, but each one sandboxed separately?


> I had some hopes for "firefox --headless" but that doesn't do what I
> want: later "firefox $URL" will not connect to the running one but will
> start a new instance.

I think this is by design, but I am not well versed in the innards of FF.

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Mick

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[gentoo-user] daemon fox?

[Ian Zimmerman]

Is it possible to start firefox as a daemon, ie. without opening any
windows, and later connect to it as needed to display URLs?  I have in
mind something similar to "emacs --daemon".

I had some hopes for "firefox --headless" but that doesn't do what I
want: later "firefox $URL" will not connect to the running one but will
start a new instance.

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