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Adam Ledger
Asked: 2019-01-03 14:51:45 +0800 CST

Appending searching instructions when opening a browser from the terminal

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I open my browser with the following command:

./start-tor-browser.desktop

But based on output received from executing another command, I want to basically append search engine addresses and search terms that is executed upon opening the browser. I think this could probably be done somehow by making additions to the command above, but again I really have no idea what I'm talking about here.

command-line browser internet

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use Tor Browser pretty much like any Firefox from the command line. For all the options type 

    ./start-tor-browser.desktop --help

    For example to pass it a URL to open on startup, type

    ./start-tor-browser.desktop www.duckduckgo.com

    You can also define a default search engine and pass it a search term using the --search option.

    Edit: The same works with plain Firefox of course.

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