Open browsers in the background
See original GitHub issueIt would be oh so nice if redacted:project_name opened browsers in the background instead of the foreground, so we don’t have to move focus back to the IDE/terminal
On mac at the very least, you can open browsers in the background: open -g -a "Google Chrome"
as an example. I’ll assume this is possible on windows/*nix also.
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It should also pass
-n
to start a new instance of the browser and--args
with new profile (for chrome/ff) etc…Also, need to find the PID of the actual browser (not the “open” wrapper), so that it’s possible to kill it.
It may have re-appeared on Windows … https://github.com/karma-runner/karma/issues/2208