Indexing the modules on the startup of Pod::Webserver can take a long time. I found myself too often busy waiting for the "You can now open your browser" message. So why not let a script automatically startup firefox after indexing is done. 
use POSIX 'setsid';
use IO::Handle;     # autoflush
sub daemonize {
    chdir "/"               or die "Cant chdir to /: $!";
    open STDIN, "/dev/null" or die "Cant read /dev/null: $!";
    open STDOUT, ">/dev/null"
                            or die "Cant write to /dev/null: $!";
    defined(my $pid = fork) or die "Cant fork: $!";
    exit if $pid;
    setsid                  or die "Cant start a new session: $!";
    open STDERR, ">&STDOUT" or die "Cant dup stdout: $!";
}

daemonize();
open my $pws, q(podwebserver |) or die $!;
autoflush $pws;
while (<$pws>) {
    /You can now open your browser to/ and last;
}

system q(firefox -remote "openurl( http://localhost:8020/, new-tab)");

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print+qq(\L@{[ref\&@]}@{['@'x7^'!#2/"!4']});

In reply to Re: Automating help doc index as new modules are installed by codeacrobat
in thread Automating help doc index as new modules are installed by Mr_Micawber

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