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by Michał 'czesiek' Czyżewski - computer geek, free software enthusiast & tea lover

Mar 10, 2010

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Yo dawg, I heard you like browsers...

...so I put a browser in your browser so you can browse while you're browsing

One of the completely useless features in Firefox is that you can open a browser in your browser. In fact that's more of a consequence of how the browser was designed and built. How about a little demo?

The effect can be achieved by typing chrome://browser/content/browser.xul into the location bar in Firefox (the place where you normally type site address). This opens a new kinda-sorta session in the viewport. Here's the pic:

Firefox inside Firefox

I wonder if this can be executed in some kind of while(1) loop. Firefox ad infinitum?

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