Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-11 Thread Michael Cooper
to assume it was bugged. Perhaps the profile manager could explain that it will try and find an existing profile and remote in to it? On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:19 PM Michael Cooper wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:35 AM Dave Townsend > wrote: > >> Woah this email got long

Re: Running different instances of Firefox side-by-side

2019-03-11 Thread Michael Cooper
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:35 AM Dave Townsend wrote: > Woah this email got long. How Firefox considers whether to pass off to an > existing instance of Firefox or continue launching a new one turns out to > be more complex than you might expect. I'm mostly interested in making > folks aware of

Re: nodejs for extensions ?

2017-07-31 Thread Michael Cooper
If you mean using modules from NPM in a browser add-on, the Shield client extension recently started doing this < https://github.com/mozilla/normandy/tree/master/recipe-client-addon> We do this by using webpack to process the node modules, bundling the entire dependency tree of a library into a

Re: How can I run Firefox programatically in fullscreen?

2017-06-26 Thread Michael Cooper
I'm not sure this is quite what you're looking for, but for Corsica (the software powering the ambient displays around the office) we do this by setting the pref full-screen-api.allow-trusted-requests-only to false. This then allows the webpage we load (Corsica) to immediately request full screen