System Grab Bag

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firefox

A free and open source web browser. More information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options.
  • Launch Firefox and open a web page:
    firefox {{https://www.duckduckgo.com}}
  • Open a new window:
    firefox --new-window {{https://www.duckduckgo.com}}
  • Open a private (incognito) window:
    firefox --private-window
  • Search for "wikipedia" using the default search engine:
    firefox --search "{{wikipedia}}"
  • Launch Firefox in safe mode, with all extensions disabled:
    firefox --safe-mode
  • Take a screenshot of a web page in headless mode:
    firefox --headless --screenshot {{path/to/output_file.png}} {{https://example.com/}}
  • Use a specific profile to allow multiple separate instances of Firefox to run at once:
    firefox --profile {{path/to/directory}} {{https://example.com/}}
  • Set Firefox as the default browser:
    firefox --setDefaultBrowser

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