This will allow starting Firefox in the background, and on Windows will allow closing the last browser window without killing the main process. There is no plan for actually using this by default in Firefox proper, but it's needed for some pine explorations.
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This will allow starting Firefox in the background, and on Windows will allow closing the last browser window without killing the main process. There is no plan for actually using this by default in Firefox proper, but it's needed for some explorations.