https://github.com/chuahou/steam-webgame-launcher

Launches a web game in Firefox and stays alive until no tabs with the specified URL exist, allowing better Steam status behaviour when added as a non-Steam game.
https://github.com/chuahou/steam-webgame-launcher

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Launches a web game in Firefox and stays alive until no tabs with the specified URL exist, allowing better Steam status behaviour when added as a non-Steam game.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/chuahou/steam-webgame-launcher
• Owner: chuahou
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-07-24T17:02:45.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-07-26T05:29:55.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-04T15:37:17.434Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: c, firefox, steam, webgame, windows
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 21.5 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# steam-webgame-launcher

*Launches a web game in Firefox and stays alive until no tabs with the specified

URL exist, allowing better Steam status behaviour when added as a non-Steam

game.*

## Usage

1. Install Firefox, and download steam-webgame-launcher.exe from the

   [Releases page](https://github.com/chuahou/steam-webgame-launcher/releases).

1. Find `recovery.jsonlz4`. It should be located somewhere like

   `C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile].default-release\sessionstore-backups\recovery.jsonlz4`

1. In Steam, click on `Games -> Add a Non-Steam Game to my Library...`.

1. Choose steam-webgame-launcher.exe.

1. Open the `Properties` of `steam-webgame-launcher` in Steam. Change the

   name/icon as desired, and set the Launch Options as follows:

   ```

   [URL] "[path to firefox.exe]" "[path to recovery.jsonlz4]"

   ```

1. For example, to launch YouTube you might have

   ```

   https://www.youtube.com "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile].default-release\sessionstore-backups\recovery.jsonlz4"

   ```

1. Launch the game.