Control Tridactyl via CLI through native messenger

[bovine3dom]

E.g. tridactyl "winopen -private".

Would fix #775.

[chrispickard]

I would be interested in looking at this, we would have to convert the native part of the extension into a connection based extension, I think.

does this sound right?

I think that would be the first step.

Then we could allow communication from the CLI

[bovine3dom]

Yeah. I think we've talked about it before somewhere - try searching for sockets or daemon in issues or in Riot chat.

[bovine3dom]

I briefly thought "hey we can add a protocol handler to Tridactyl" to fix this via - ext+tridactyl:// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/protocol_handlers#content

then firefox "ext+tridactyl://[whatever]" would work

but that's a terrible idea as any site could redirect to a link with that protocol and run whatever they want on the user's machine.

I just wanted to document what a bad idea it was to stop me from thinking of it again and implementing it

[gerardbosch]

I've just found this issue and I'm wondering if it could be related in any way to this question: #4012