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Show HN: Make Firefox competely dissappear and reappear[Linux & Mac]

5 points by woodall ↗ HN
Since this could have undesired side effects while quick browsing here is the url: http://www.christopherwoodall.com/peekaboo

It has something to do with either OS widgets and/or GTK(resizing a window >65555 pixels). Nothing special, i.e. code execution, but interesting to say the least.

I think the fact that the window and task bar item "disappears"(process is still running) then "reappears" after the timeout if neat.

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daleharvey
for me the window dissapeared and never reappeared, every time I killed firefox it restored an invisible window, I was close to wiping my profile before it suddenly went away.

If you are really curious then I would use a new profile to try it

woodall
What version of FF are you using? It should only sleep for a bit and come back.