firefox - how can I have different launchers with unique home pages

I have firefox running on Redhat 9. I'd like to have multiple
launchers start firefox with a different home page for each.
Is there a switch I can use that directs which web page to display?

TIA,

-- Wayne.

 

Write as many shell scripts as launcher you would like to have, with the
following content. Then, make the launchers point to these scripts.

#!/bin/sh

firefoxpath='/home/tguignar/opt/firefox-1.0/firefox'

#get URL to load
url=$1; [ -z $url ] && url=http://www.epfl.ch/place.html

$firefoxpath -remote 'openURL('$url', new-window)' || $firefoxpath $url &

Replace the firefoxpath with what's valid on your system and the url
variable with what you need.

Hope this helps.

Tom

P.S. The -remote switch ensures that each time you use this script, it
actually opens a new window in Firefox rather than invoking a new
instance of Firefox (which leads to problems regarding your profile). By
changing new-window to new-tab, for example, you could make the scripts
open your home pages to a new tab instead of a new window.

 

wait, I'm an idiot. You only need one script like this, with the default
url inside. To open other urls, simply pass the url as parameter. If
your script is named launch_browser.sh for example, then you can use

launch_browser.sh http://www.spreadfirefox.com

etc...

 

I think you are being a little harsh on yourself Tom ;-)
That worked exactly perfect. If run from the command line,
and firefox is not currently running, the following is generated:

Error: No running window found

This is not seen while using as a launcher, so it is no big deal.

Thanks Tom,

-- Wayne.