Yep, it's tricky, and not without risks... but that's true of anything
tasty. :)

Cheers,

Dave

Michael Adams wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:23:19 +1300
> Came this utterance formulated by Dave Lane to my mailbox:
> 
>> It uses Xvfb (an X virtual frame buffer - headless :))
>>
> 
> http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/xvfb-firefox.html
> 
> There looks like there could be several traps using this method for
> Aarons needs. 
> 
> How do you unload the firefox page, or does it just get overwritten
> with the next page requested?
> 
> How do you start firefox without chrome?
> 
> How do you pipe the screenshot to Imagemagic? 
> 
> Does firefox squawk when the page is finished loading? How to get the
> screenshot?
> 
> Is the full process less or more CPU/memory/time intensive than the
> other route? 
> 
> Dang - you must have solved a lot of questions ;) Way more than i've
> broached here!
> 

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