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Open browsers in the background

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It 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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  • State:open
  • Created 11 years ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:15 (4 by maintainers)

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vojtajinacommented, Aug 19, 2013

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.

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hpurmanncommented, Jun 29, 2016

It may have re-appeared on Windows … https://github.com/karma-runner/karma/issues/2208

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