Can Firefox be controlled from the command line?

[banjo]

I am trying to make the multimedia keys on my new keyboard work with Firefox.

I have xbindkeys running, which allows me to bind a function key to a command.

I have this working with aumix to control the sound volume using commands like:

 

/usr/bin/aumix -w +10 &

/usr/bin/aumix -w -10 &

 

Is there some way that I can control a running Firefox program with command line commands

to do things like refresh a page, go to the home page, etc? I need to bind a keysym to

a command in order to make this work.

 

I would also like to hook up the email keys on the keyboard so that I can fire up Kmail

and control it from the keyboard.

 

Has anybody done anything like this?

 

I am running Mandy 9.1.

 

Thanks,

Banjo

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[daniewicz]

When using mozilla I can launch with a specific url as follows:

mozilla "www.mozilla.org"

 

Does this help?

 

I am attaching an html file I found somewhere on the web which list command line options.

firefox_commandline.html

[banjo]

Thanks for the pointer.

 

That is exactly the sort of thing that I am looking for.

So far I have not found the right remote commands to do things like reload a page or go to the home page.

But it is a good place to start looking.

 

Banjo

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