1731501 - Allow starting on OSX with silentmode without a dock icon

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Comment 1

[Alex Thayer [:alexical] (she/her)]

Attachment: Bug 1731501 - Use setActivationPolicy to hide dock icon on OSX r?mstange

This could be a bit risky to enable in any widespread fashion, but the
goal here is just to land it behind an undocumented command line flag
so that we can do a bit of experimentation and dogfooding. The API
seems to work exactly as desired: firefox opens in the background
without a window or dock icon. Upon trying to launch firefox again, we
simply send a remote command to the existing instance to open a window,
and it does so and gets a dock icon.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

There's a r+ patch which didn't land and no activity in this bug for 2 weeks.
:dthayer, could you have a look please?
For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/5bb479b1282c
Use setActivationPolicy to hide dock icon on OSX r=mstange

Comment 4

[Iulian Moraru]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5bb479b1282c

Comment 5

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

This may or may not have regressed as described in bug 1736373 - it may be an updater issue too.