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