firefox - a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla
browser
firefox [OPTIONS] [URL]
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox [OPTIONS] [URL]
Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for
standards compliance, performance and portability.
If there is an Firefox browser already running, firefox
will arrange for it to create a new browser window; otherwise it will start
a new instance.
A summary of the options supported by firefox is included
below.
- -h, -help
- Show summary of options.
- -v, -version
- Print Firefox version.
- -P [profile]
- Start with profile. When no profile is given, displays the Profile
Manager. May require -no-remote, see below.
- -migration
- Start with migration wizard. May require -no-remote, see
below.
- -ProfileManager
- Start with profile manager. May require -no-remote, see below.
- -no-remote
- Don't connect to a running Firefox instance. This option can be necessary
in conjunction to several of the options above, that won't have any effect
when an Firefox instance is running unless -no-remote is used at
the same time.
- -UILocale
locale
- Start with locale resources as User Interface locale. By default,
it is guessed from environment and available locales for Firefox.
- -safe-mode
- Starts Firefox in safe mode, i.e. disabling all extensions and showing a
bit more debugging messages.
- -jsconsole
- Start with Javascript Console
- -new-window
URL
- Open URL in a new window in an already running Firefox
process.
- -new-tab
URL
- Open URL in a new tab in an already running Firefox process.
- -chrome
url
- Load the specified chrome.
MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS - when set, totally disables
loading browser plugins (the ones that appear at the about:plugins url)
/usr/bin/firefox - symbolic link to
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox - Firefox executable.
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin - Legacy executable.
To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
and/or report bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual.