Heya! On 06/15/2015 02:39 AM, Colin Arnott wrote: > As a user of firefox, I am aware that when firefox is running, you can call > [$ firefox <url>] or [$ firefox --new-tab <url>] and it will add a new tab to > your existing firefox process. This is really handy if you would like another > process to open a link in Firefox. > > With the tor-browser-bundle, despite the [--help] option indicates that "All > unrecognized arguments will be passed to the browser". However, when you > launch [$ tor-browser-en --new-tab <url>], [$ tor-browser-en <url>] or even > [$ tor-browser], you get the following error: > > "Tor Browser is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, > you must first close the existing Tor Browser process, or restart your > system." > > Is there a way to get this functionality with the existing browser bundle, as > this feature works fine on vanilla Firefox? If not what would be required to > allow these requests to be forwarded to the underling firefox process, or are > there security/anonymity implications involved and thus this feature is > disabled?
Wondering if there isn't some "--no-remote" option passed by default… ? This would prevent any firefox to accept the commands you proposed. Cheers, C. > > p.s. [$ <command> <parameters>] is my way of indicating that you launch > <command> in the shell of your preference with non-root permissions. > -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
