Starting firefox with multiple urls in tabs

[nimzov]

Starting firefox with this command line will open the 2 urls in 2 tabs which is what I want.

cmd.exe /c start "" "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "www.googolplex.net|www.randi.org"

This works fine if no instances of FF are already running.

But if an instance of firefox is already running the same command line will bring firefox to the foreground but will give a problem loading page error message :

"Firefox can't find the server at www.googolplex.net|www.randi.org"

I am looking for a way of activating by command line an instance of FF while at the same time loading multiples URLs in tabs.

(Windows 2000, FF 2.0.0.5)

Any ideas ?

Thanks

nimzo

 

[illogical]

linux:

mozilla -remote "openURL(www.mozilla.org, new-tab)"

windows:

http://lifehacker.com/software/command-line/launch-multiple-firefox-tabs-from-the-run-box-257705.php

i don't have Win32 firefox to test this.

 

[illogical]

if you are using Windows scripts, you might like AutoHotKey and nowindow.exe

it's clear from the Firefox output that you can't delimit with bar.

 

[Guile]

Add a user variable "firefox" with the path "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox" (or where ever) and create a .bat file:

cd %firefox%
start firefox url1 url2 url3 url4
exit

Double click the .bat file and it should work, and you can create numerous url groups with .bat files I suppose.

 

[nimzov]

Thanks to all.

I got it running with now.

nimzo

 

[Tirdun]

You can also use the pipe | character in tools->options->main->home page as a delimiter.

http://my.yahoo.com|http://www.google.com|http://www.whatever.net