Dave, On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 3:01 AM 'Dave Townsend' via [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> See bug 1906260 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1906260>[1] > for more details but I am planning on removing the -no-remote command line > argument from Firefox. This has been unneeded since Firefox 67 when we > started supporting running multiple profiles simultaneously without it. The > only effect right now is often to cause some user confusion as many tools > and websites recommend its use. In the future its use will break some new > functionality we are adding with the new profiles work. We will retain the > -new-instance argument which bypasses the startup check for other running > instances using the same profile which is essentially the same thing > (though you pass this argument on subsequent instances rather than the > first instance). > > Please let me know if you know of any reason not to remove this. > I agree, we should remove `-no-remote`! In addition to all of the reasons given here, the remoting protocol is used to deliver Windows native notifications correctly and disabling it will cause bad interactions with that system. Thanks for doing this! Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CAMnWBR0P22eTZzYaUpxYEMevZEU3_TQondAuMVt4ohb7ZLGZAQ%40mail.gmail.com.
