[SOLVED]Firefox and opening multiple tabs

Voorhees51 · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 358

Is there away to have firefox open a new window and multiple tabs from the command line?

Like $firefox www.google.com opens google, but it is in an existing window of firefox that I have open.
I want to be able to open mulitple tabs in a new window, like slashdot, gentoo forums, weather, etc. and have a new window open with those tabs in it.

Is this possible, or is there another way to accomplish this?

Any help would be very much apprectated

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morodoch · Guru Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 523 Location: England

Check out the tabbrowser extensions:

http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

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Voorhees51 · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 358

GetLinux · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 249 Location: USA

So you say you have the extension installed, you've configured it, it works when you click a link, but it doesn't work when you try from the command line?
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parsim · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject:

I think all you need to do is go into Preferences/Options -> Advanced -> Tabbed Browsing -> Open Links From Other Applications In -> "A new tab in the existing window".

Then this will open a new tab in the already-running Firefox:

Voorhees51 · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 358

I've got it working to where from the command line I type firefox http://www.google.com and it will open a new window with google in it.

But I try firefox http://www.google.com http://www.yahoo.com and it opens them each in a new window, can i set it so it opens in 1 window but has multiple tabs .. 2 in this case google and yahoo?

parsim · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:51 pm Post subject:

You're right: if firefox isn't already running, that command will open new windows. It only opens them in tabs if firefox is already started (and, of course, the option I mentioned earlier is set).

But you can just write a little script like this:

parsim · Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:11 am Post subject:

Also, if you already have a running firefox but you want to control how you open new sites from the command line:

To open a new site in a new window:

Voorhees51 · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 358

Got it working thanks:
here's what I did

$ firefox -remote "openURL(http://www.gentoo.org,new-window)"; firefox -remote "openURL(http://www.slashdot.org,new-tab)"