Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:17:53 -0400 From: Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> To: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make a symlink to a webpage? Message-ID: <8d23ec860707161417n744e52d9mcef58f9807ab695d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90707161250k6aadaed4sff953baec39403da@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90707161250k6aadaed4sff953baec39403da@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/16/07, Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> wrote: > I know this is browser-specific, so let's just say firefox - how do I > make a link to a page that I can execute directly? This is not the > type of thing that's easy to google for. I tried copying some of the > ".url" links from my win32 box and opening them with firefox, but that > was just wishful thinking... > > Thanks, > Steve I'm not sure if you can, to be honest. (Although I may be wrong). Windows lets you do this because the .url extension is associated with your browser through the windows registry. Hardly any other operating systems have a registry type thing...(I don't even think mac has one). What you could do is make a shell script that executes your browser with a command line option with the URL. Check the docs for your browser, almost every browser lets you do this. Like "firefox -url=http://asdf.com" or something.
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