[tor-bugs] #14977 [Tor Browser]: TBB with -allow-remote conflict with Firefox and leak opened pages to it

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#14977: TBB with -allow-remote conflict with Firefox and leak opened pages to it
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  tbb-team
  cypherpunks            |     Status:  new
         Type:  defect   |  Milestone:
     Priority:  normal   |    Version:
    Component:  Tor      |   Keywords:  TorBrowserTeam201503, tbb-4.5-alpha
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Comment (by brade):

 Replying to [comment:2 mikeperry]:
 > mcs - what makes you think this is risky (as per your comment in
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14631#comment:13)?

 Just that it is a major change in behavior, so the potential issues are
 somewhat unknown.  It does seem like the right direction for Tor Browser,
 and probably packages like iceweasel already use these configure flags.
 Also, Kathy and I used them some years ago when we built a custom browser
 for someone else.  We would need to figure out the exact case and spacing
 that is appropriate, e.g., should we use --with-app-name=torbrowser or
 --with-app-name="Tor Browser" and so on.

 If we do this, someday soon we can consider allowing remoting by default.

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