Commits on Mar 23, 2019

1. Open additional URLs with the same TorBrowser instance …

   When we looked at the history of issues about opening links with TorBrowser, we
   found torproject#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 torproject#157 and torproject#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: torproject#245, torproject#259, torproject#380

   

   hefee committed Mar 23, 2019
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