[tor-dev] How to run a headless second Firefox instance?

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 08:16:44 UTC 2014


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:17 PM, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> wrote:
>> $ iceweasel -no-remote -p testing -chrome http://localhost:9999
>
> That's an interesting idea. I didn't know about the -chrome option.
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#Chrome

I was looking into driving Mozilla from the command line and assembling
some notes. Maybe these links and small example apps are of use.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Chrome/Command_Line
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/XULRunner/CommandLine
https://github.com/omarabid/CmdShots
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grab-them-all/
http://rafal.zelazko.info/2009/08/21/screenshot-server/
http://rafal.zelazko.info/2008/06/23/easy-screenshot-of-many-sites/

If you don't want to *see* mozilla, maybe you can bury it in
a zero size or null Xnest DISPLAY / emulation, or patch out
FF's display guts before that.


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