08-21-2008
Launching Firefox (2.0) with No Toolbars + URL?
I'm using Firefox 2.x on Gentoo Linux 2008. I am going to be making a change here at work so that I no longer use a mail client, but use our web mail system. It may not be ideal compared to running Thunderbird, but I need to learn the web app enough to train users on more advanced features. The only way to do that is to live with the web app every day. My main annoyance with running most web apps (AJAX, Flash, what have you...) is that the browser always has the navigation toolbar, and the bookmarks toolbar at the top which makes any of these things feel less like an app and more like a web page. This is especially fruitless when you're not supposed to use the navigation bar to move around the app.
So what I'd like to do is launch Firefox pointed specifically at the web mail app's URL where it will open in a window with only the bottom status bar showing and nothing else. Ideally, even the menu should be gone. I've seen people do this with pop-up ads, and I imagine that's done on the web server side. But is there any other way to do it? I looked through the firefox command line options and nothing seems to touch on this. I suppose even a local HTML file that is opened by the browser would be good enough, but where do I even start with that? I imagine that would be fairly simple. Any suggestions as to where to start? I'm not a web developer, so be gentle with me.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
firefox
firefox(1) User Commands firefox(1)
NAME
firefox - Firefox for Sun Java Desktop System
SYNOPSIS
firefox [options ... ] [url]
DESCRIPTION
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages
over other browsers, such as the ability to block pop-up windows.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-height value Set the height of startup window to value.
-h or -help Display the help message.
-width value Set the width of startup window to value.
-v or -version Display the version message.
-P profile Start with the profile named: profile.
-ProfileManager Start with profile manager.
-UILocale locale Start with the UI Locale listed: locale.
-safe-mode Disables extensions and themes for this session.
-jsconsole Open the JavaScript console.
-browser Open a browser window.
-setDefaultBrowser Set this app as the default browser.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Firefox
example% firefox
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
1 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/firefox
Executable for Firefox application
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox
User configuration files for Firefox
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWfirefox |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
For more information about firefox, please refer to http://www.mozilla.org/firefox
Refer to Help->Help Contents for more information.
NOTES
Updated by Evan Yan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.
SunOS 5.11 10 Jul 2008 firefox(1)