Web browser RPC question

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Author: Kevin
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Subject: Web browser RPC question
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 14:21, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Here's a question for you web gurus: what I want to do is to control a web
> browser programmatically, specifically to tell an open browser window to open
> a new URL automagically rather than typing it in. It could be any Linux
> browser: Mozilla, Netscape, Galeon, Konqueror, Opera - maybe even Lynx.


Try these:

galeon -x yahoo.com
netscape -remote 'openURL(http://home.netscape.com)'
mozilla -remote "openurl(http://www.mozilla.org)"


See also:
http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html