Open multiple firefox tabs from command line

Question

I'm trying to open firefox with two tabs from the command line, with two separate web addresses. So far I'm having no luck.

firefox -new-tab https://www.evernote.com/Home.action -new-tab http://www.gmail.com

Could someone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Oops. I just found the answer. You need to add a -url after each `-new-tab'.

firefox -new-tab -url https://www.evernote.com/Home.action -new-tab -url http://www.gmail.com

Now it works. Hope this can help somebody.

Answer 2

You no longer need to add -url, simply write firefox followed by space-separated URLs.

Example:

firefox mail.google.com askubuntu.com stackoverflow.com

Answer 3

Create a file containing list of URLs called url.txt:

http://www.url1.xxx
http://www.url2.xxx
http://www.url3.xxx

Firefox uses the new-tab command, so you could pass the URLs in the file to the browser like so:

xargs -a url.txt firefox -new-tab "$line"

Answer 4

If you have a file tabs.txt with a URL on each line, you can use this command:

firefox $(cat tabs.txt) &

and it will open an instance of Firefox and a tab for each line.

Added the ampersand so it can run as a separate process.

To save the tabs, I am using a Firefox extension that copies the tabs to the clipboard. I save them in Documents to open later.