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When ending a Selenium test Capybara resets the browser state by closing the tab, clearing cookies, localStorage, etc.
There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.
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This is useful to kill processes like ruby my-script.rb: pkill -f my-script.rb With great power comes great responsibility.
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