[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:  cypherpunks                          |          Owner:
     Type:  defect                               |  mikeperry
 Priority:  Medium                               |         Status:
Component:  Tor Browser                          |  assigned
 Severity:  Normal                               |      Milestone:
 Keywords:  tbb-usability-stoppoint-navigation,  |        Version:
  tbb-usability-stoppoint-app                    |     Resolution:
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Comment (by mcs):

 Replying to [comment:10 special]:
 > Replying to [comment:9 gk]:
 > > Hm.. Is this still an issue? It seems Debian testing is shipping
 Firefox now and having that one open and starting the Tor Browser with
 `--allow-remote foo.com` opens `foo.com` in Tor Browser.

 I suspect the addition of {{{--class "Tor Browser"}}} to the commands in
 the Linux start-tor-browser fixed this. But see #17891.

 > On OS X, I'm not able to reproduce the original problem of pages opening
 in another Firefox. However, I can't get pages to open in an existing Tor
 Browser even with `--allow-remote` - there is always an error about
 another instance of Tor Browser running. Is that a separate bug?

 Maybe. But I get that same error with the Firefox 45.0.1 when I just run a
 command like:
   /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox https://google.com/
 I am not sure, but I don't think this has ever worked on Mac OS X. See
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238992 for a similar question
 (the answer: "use Apple Events")

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