I'm looking for a way to programatically lauch a Mozilla browser with several URLS in different TABs. I'm kind of poking around in the dark right now trying to determine if there is a way to do it and came across this project. Has any tried this?
Thanks. -Craig
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I'm not aware of how to do this. As it now stands, browser launcher opens the system's default browser which may or may not be mozilla. If the browser is mozilla the url will open in the current tab.
So, it sounds like you want to be able to specify the browser to use and pass multiple urls.
Do you know if mozilla supports tab specification from the command line?
I and the other developers will need to discuss this to determine if a cross-platform api for this type of functionality is possible.
Thanks for your interest,
Jeff
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I have discovered that the latest Firefox browser does allow this. You can basically call firefox from the command line and pass it a list of URLs separated by vertical bars. It will launch up and load each URL into a separate tab.
As far as a cross platform api for this functionality... I don't think that IE doesn't supports tabbed browsing as yet. Perhaps just the ability to pass a list of URLS, and depending on the users' browser configuration it may spawn multiple browser windows or a single window with multiple tabs. That's the only way I can think to make it cross-browser compliant.
Anyway for my particular needs I can just use Firefox for now so I am not in need of this functionality out of this project. May be something worth thinking about down the road though. Thanks for taking the time to reply to me.
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I'm looking for a way to programatically lauch a Mozilla browser with several URLS in different TABs. I'm kind of poking around in the dark right now trying to determine if there is a way to do it and came across this project. Has any tried this?
Thanks. -Craig
Hi Craig,
I'm not aware of how to do this. As it now stands, browser launcher opens the system's default browser which may or may not be mozilla. If the browser is mozilla the url will open in the current tab.
So, it sounds like you want to be able to specify the browser to use and pass multiple urls.
Do you know if mozilla supports tab specification from the command line?
I and the other developers will need to discuss this to determine if a cross-platform api for this type of functionality is possible.
Thanks for your interest,
Jeff
I have discovered that the latest Firefox browser does allow this. You can basically call firefox from the command line and pass it a list of URLs separated by vertical bars. It will launch up and load each URL into a separate tab.
As far as a cross platform api for this functionality... I don't think that IE doesn't supports tabbed browsing as yet. Perhaps just the ability to pass a list of URLS, and depending on the users' browser configuration it may spawn multiple browser windows or a single window with multiple tabs. That's the only way I can think to make it cross-browser compliant.
Anyway for my particular needs I can just use Firefox for now so I am not in need of this functionality out of this project. May be something worth thinking about down the road though. Thanks for taking the time to reply to me.