passing URL to firefox vi the CLI

[LuKreme]

On 21-Mar-2008, at 13:21, José Pedro do Amaral wrote:
>
> Em 21/03/2008, às 13:24, LuKreme escreveu:
>> On 21-Mar-2008, at 08:15, José Pedro do Amaral wrote:
>>> /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox "http://slashdot.org 
>>> "
>>
>>
>> That only works if Firefox is not already running.
>
> OK, then do:
>
> /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P default1 -no- 
> remote "slashdot.org" &
>
> This will open a new defaults window, where you can create user  
> default1, and then a new instance of Firefox will run along with the  
> instance already running.

Err.. all I want is to tell firefox "hey, here's a url, load it up  
just like if I clicked on it in, say, Mail.app"

I don't want a new user profile or a new instance of firefox to laucnh

> There are a series of other flags, but I could not add tabs to a pre- 
> existing instance...

Bah!


On 21-Mar-2008, at 20:05, Charles Jacobs wrote:
> $ osascript -e 'tell application "Firefox" to OpenURL("foo.com")'

fugly, but it should work. Open also.  It just seemed it would be good  
to pass the URL directly.


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