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How to open firefox 22 in private browsing and navigate an url from command line

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MonsterMMORPG
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Hello. What i want is simple

Start firefox at private browsing mode At this started private browsing mode open multiple urls

But it is not working

I tried this

It always open a new regular window and navigate url in that regular window. Also opens a private window but doesn't navigate any url

How to fix =

Hello. What i want is simple Start firefox at private browsing mode At this started private browsing mode open multiple urls But it is not working I tried this It always open a new regular window and navigate url in that regular window. Also opens a private window but doesn't navigate any url How to fix =

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cor-el
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Maybe you can achieve this with the Private Tab extension (pref: allowOpenExternalLinksInPrivateTabs) or ask to add this feature.

MonsterMMORPG
MonsterMMORPG Autor de la pregunta
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@cor-el so how am i going to open private tab via command line and navigate url ?

Diamond
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  1. Go to the Firefox menu.
  2. Go to open private window

Another window will pop up on firefox, and then you can use private browsing.

cor-el
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I'm not sure if you can do this via the command line.

  • Bug 829180 - Externally opened urls may open in private browsing windows

(Please DO NOT comment in bug reports: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html)

You should be able to drag a link in a Private Browsing mode window or a private tab.
Note that the Private Tab extension has a check-box in the right-click context menu of the tab on the tab bar to toggle the private mode of a tab.

MonsterMMORPG
MonsterMMORPG Autor de la pregunta
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I need to somehow open a url in private window programmatically

cor-el
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It seems to work if you set Firefox to always start in Private Browsing mode (browser.privatebrowsing.autostart = true)

  • Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history": [X] "Always use private browsing mode" 
user_pref("browser.privatebrowsing.autostart", true);
MonsterMMORPG
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@cor-el yes but it is a very lame solution actually it is not a solution

cor-el
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It is a workaround that you can consider because other ways probably aren't possible.

You could reserve a second profile in cases where you need to use the command line if you do not want to do this in the current default profile.

See:

You can use the -no-remote command line switch to open another Firefox instance with its own profile and run multiple Firefox instances simultaneously.

MonsterMMORPG
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@cor-el for a very simple feature, so much work. But it seems this the fault of developers. can't be helped