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Re: [Help-bash] Firefox Parameter
From: |
Greg Wooledge |
Subject: |
Re: [Help-bash] Firefox Parameter |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:08:17 -0500 |
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:20:39AM +0000, Joydeep Chakrabarty wrote:
> contains -
>
> #! /bin/sh
> firefox -newtab "$@" || firefox "$@" &
>
> I made it executable with +x option. Now when I run it using "./ff
> www.yahoo.com", it always opens up my homepage(google). What am I doing
> wrong here?
This isn't so much a Bash question as a Firefox question. Start with
the basics. If you type this command at a shell prompt:
firefox -newtab www.yahoo.com
what does it do? For me, it opens a new window (not a new tab) with
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl in the URL bar, and Google's front
page displayed.
This means that "firefox -newtab ..." is not the right command. You
need to find out what the right command IS, before you can put it in
a script.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options
might be useful, or it might not. It was my first Google result for
"firefox command line parameters".