Re: [Help-bash] Firefox Parameter

[Joydeep Chakrabarty]

On Monday 15 December 2014 08:38 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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".

Thanks, it worked. I just removed the -newtab option.
I could not figure out to which group I should post. I thought I might 
be passing wrong parameter to my shell script. So I posted here.

Thanks again.