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[WIP] Open additional URLs with the same TorBrowser instance

Open hefee opened this issue 5 years ago • 6 comments

When we looked at the history of issues about opening links with TorBrowser, we found #103 where initially the feature to open links from other applications was added. Then some months later, the feature was removed again, as it was not working because of #157 and #175. The issues was back then (~4years ago), that when users had a normal Firefox running, urls got opened in the normal firefox insead of TorBrowser. That was because TorBrowser had the --no-remote flag set deep down in their code. In the meanwhile TorBrowser removed the explicit --no-remote flag, so we are able to use --allow-remote again. On top of that there is another issue when we want open urls with TorBrowser: If the LOGNAME is the same as the LOGNAME of the opened firefox, urls are still opened in the open firefox. But if we set the LOGNAME envrionment variable explicitly, we can make sure, that the url opens in the TorBrowser instead of a running Firefox.

Should fix: #245, #259, #380

WIP: it is not cleaned up, maybe we want revert 3f1146e1a084c4e8021da968104cbc2877ae01e6 and have the setting accept_links back.

hefee avatar Mar 23 '19 22:03 hefee