[tor-bugs] #6712 [Firefox Patch Issues]: TorBrowser should handle mozilla-xremote-client better

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#6712: TorBrowser should handle mozilla-xremote-client better
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 Reporter:  andrea                |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement           |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:           
Component:  Firefox Patch Issues  |        Version:           
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 I like to run TorBrowser for anonymized browsing and vanilla Firefox at
 the same time.  Right now, I have fvwm set up to start things like
 '/usr/bin/firefox -P "default"' and '/usr/bin/tor-browser -P "Tor Browser
 Profile" -no-remote'; if I leave off the -no-remote, then starting
 TorBrowser with vanilla Firefox running gives me a new Firefox window
 instead.  With -no-remote, I always get TorBrowser, but if it's already
 running it won't give me a new window, just a complaint about a process
 already running, and I have to go find the existing window to clone it.

 I think mozilla-xremote-client is the mechanism behind this for finding
 running instances and telling them to make a new window, but I haven't
 much looked into how it works.  It'd be nice if it were smarter about
 telling the differences between different browsers running, and even nicer
 if it also could tell the difference between different processes running
 different protocols so all this worked smoothly.

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