NAME
firefox - a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser
SYNOPSIS
firefox [OPTIONS] [URL]
DESCRIPTION
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.
USAGE
firefox is a simple shell script that will set up the environment for the actual executable.
OPTIONS
A summary of the options supported by firefox is included below.
GTK options
--gdk-debug=FLAGS Gdk debugging flags to set
| --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS | |
| Gdk debugging flags to unset | |
| --gtk-debug=FLAGS | |
| Gtk+ debugging flags to set | |
| --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS | |
| Gtk+ debugging flags to unset | |
| --gtk-module=MODULE | |
| Load an additional Gtk module
| |
X11 options
| --display=DISPLAY | |
| X display to use | |
| --sync | Make X calls synchronous |
| --no-xshm | |
| Don’t use X shared memory extension | |
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--xim-preedit=STYLE
--xim-status=STYLE --g-fatal-warnings | |
| Make all warnings fatal
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Firefox options
| -h, -help | Show summary of options. |
| -height value | |
| Set height of startup window to value. | |
| -width value | |
| Set width of startup window to value. | |
| -v, -version | |
| Print /usr/bin/firefox-bin version. | |
| -CreateProfile profile | |
| Create profile. | |
| -P profile | |
| Start with profile. | |
| -ProfileManager | |
| Start with profile manager. | |
| -UILocale lang-region | |
| Start with lang-region resources. | |
| -contentLocale lang-region | |
| Start with lang-region resources. | |
| -remote command | |
| Execute command in an already running Firefox process. For more info, see: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html | |
| -no-remote | |
| Don’t try to control an already running instance. | |
| -jsconsole | |
| Start with Javascript Console | |
| -chrome url | |
| Load the specified chrome. | |
| -new-window url | |
| Open URL in a new window if Firefox is already running. | |
| -new-tab url | |
| Open URL in a new tab if Firefox is already running. | |
| -preferences | |
| Open Firefox preferences menu. | |
| -safe-mode | |
| Disables extensions and themes for this session. | |
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FILES
/usr/bin/firefox - shell script wrapping
firefox
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox - firefox
executable
VERSION
3.0
BUGS
To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
| The Mozilla Organization | |
| http://www.mozilla.org/about.html | |
