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To the Windows users, Firefox is known for its high level of security that it offers against the native browser of Windows. A large number of users use Firefox for its immunity to spyware, ActiveX, popups and lots more. There are however times when you have to troubleshoot Firefox related issues. Here's a list of some of the command line options for Firefox.
- -safe-mode: Starts Firefox in safe mode with all extensions, themes, bookmarks, toolbars disabled and default.
- -p: Brings up the Firefox profile manager dialogue to let you choose your profile
- <url>: Opens the <url> with Firefox
- -createprofile <profilename>: Creates a profile with <profilename>
- -createprofile "profilename c:\profilelocation": Creates the profile "profilename" at location "c:\profilelocation"
- -migration: Starts Firefox with the import wizard.
- -console: Starts Firefox with the debugging console.
- -jsconsole: Starts Firefox with the javascript console
- -search "terms": Starts Firefox and searches for "terms" using the default search engine
- -setDefaultBrowser: Sets Firefox as the default browser
- -no-remote -P "<profilename>": Starts Firefox in a different profile than the current instance of Firefox
- -inspector <url>: Starts DOM Inspector with<url>.
- -chrome chrome://inspector/content/inspector.xul: Starts DOM Inspector
- -new-window <url>: Opens Firefox with <url> into a second window
- -new-tab <url>: Opens Firefox with <url> is an extra tab
- -install-global-theme "/path/to/theme": Installs a theme into the application directory so that it is available in all profiles
- -install-global-extension "/path/to/extension": Installs an extension into the application directory so that it is available in all profiles
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i really appreciate the way you make difficult concepts easier to understand. I still haven't figured out how to get my Night Launch Nasa Skin-2 ( the black background behind google) to work, but woityh time, im sure i will. I'm really looking forward to Colorful Tabs: they sound tremendous!!!!
Thank you all for your hard work!!!!!!
Can you tell me if there's a way to launch Firefox to an URL, and if firefox is already open, prevent it from opening a new tab - - - just point the present browser window to that url?
Bob: just use
firefox.exe http://www.google.com