Launch Tabs from Run Box

January 2, 2008 at 7:25 am · Bookmark Help

In need of a quicker way to launch Firefox with a series of tabs? You can quickly do so in Windows by clicking on the start button, then go to run (or just hit Win+R) and type in:

Firefox from the Run Command

Been playing with this for a while, and have yet to break it. Seems to work flawlessly each and every time. If you jut type in “firefox keyword” then you will get the same effect as just typing a phrase into the address bar.

Bonus: In Window Vista, the same trick works for me from the Vista search box in the start menu too. Whoo hoo for one less step!

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Tags: command, firefox, launch, run, shortcut, Tabbed Browsing, tip

Roby said,

January 2, 2008 @ 9:39 am

it doesnt work in XP.

Mitch said,

January 2, 2008 @ 10:08 am

Very odd Roby, worked for me in Vista and XP.

Jasper said,

January 2, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

Roby must be doing something wrong, it works perfect.

Just typed in firefox google.com yahoo.com and it did what it should do: open 2 tabs in a new firefox window. Very cool trick!

More Command Line Firefox Tips | Firefox Facts said,

January 3, 2008 @ 8:09 am

[...] yesterday’s post about Launching tabs from the run box I thought I would share with you some other command line Firefox tips worth getting familiar [...]

baracuda said,

January 6, 2008 @ 6:59 pm

Works great in Kubuntu linux!

Donkey said,

January 6, 2008 @ 7:09 pm

Why doesn’t this work in batch?

Tech Tweet » Firefox tabs tip in Windows said,

January 6, 2008 @ 8:03 pm

[...] The Firefox Facts blog brings up a nice tip for opening up a series of tabs in Firefox quickly. Just use the run command (Win key+R) and type firefox followed by the urls you want to open, or followed by a keyword to do a search on that keyword. [...]

Firefox Quick Tip: Launch Tabs via Run Command in Vista said,

January 7, 2008 @ 1:06 am

[...] Via Firefox Facts [...]

Mirzas said,

January 7, 2008 @ 3:43 am

Location of firefox.exe must be inside the PATH environment variable for it to work from a batch file.

Macr said,

January 7, 2008 @ 5:54 am

Why don’t you set your start up page in options like so:
http://www.a_website.com/|http://www.another_website.com/|http://www.and_another_website.com/
Then when you restart it, it will start with 3 tabs running. You can set up as many tabs as you like. I run with two.

Learn to Write a Batch File with Firefox | Firefox Facts said,

January 7, 2008 @ 8:06 am

[...] Then go to File then pick Save As… and save this as FirefoxTip.bat to your desktop. To test, double click the icon it created for you on the desktop. If successful, Firefox should open up. If you did something wrong, you’ll probably either get an error message or nothing will happen. Also as a side note brought up by Mirzas: [...]

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