FIREFOX

 

NAME

firefox-esr – a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser

 

SYNOPSIS

firefox-esr [OPTIONS] [URL]

/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr [OPTIONS] [URL]

 

DESCRIPTION

Firefox ESR is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.

 

USAGE

If there is an Firefox ESR browser already running, firefox-esr will arrange for it to create a new browser window; otherwise it will start a new instance.

 

OPTIONS

A summary of the options supported by firefox-esr is included below.

 

X11 options

–display=DISPLAY

X display to use

–sync

Make X calls synchronous

–no-xshm

Don’t use X shared memory extension

–xim-preedit=STYLE

–xim-status=STYLE

–g-fatal-warnings

Make all warnings fatal

 

Mozilla options

-h, -help

Show summary of options.

-v, -version

Print Firefox ESR version.

-P [profile]

Start with profile. When no profile is given, displays the Profile Manager. May require -no-remote, see below.

-migration

Start with migration wizard. May require -no-remote, see below.

-ProfileManager

Start with profile manager. May require -no-remote, see below.

-no-remote

Don’t connect to a running Firefox ESR instance. This option can be necessary in conjunction to several of the options above, that won’t have any effect when an Firefox ESR instance is running unless -no-remote is used at the same time.

-UILocale locale

Start with locale resources as User Interface locale. By default, it is guessed from environment and available locales for Firefox ESR.

-safe-mode

Starts Firefox ESR in safe mode, i.e. disabling all extensions and showing a bit more debugging messages.

-jsconsole

Start with Javascript Console

-new-window URL

Open URL in a new window in an already running Firefox ESR process.

-new-tab URL

Open URL in a new tab in an already running Firefox ESR process.

-chrome url

Load the specified chrome.

 

ENVIRONMENT

MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS – when set, totally disables loading browser plugins (the ones that appear at the about:plugins url)

 

FILES

/usr/bin/firefox-esr – symbolic link to /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr.

/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr – Firefox ESR executable.

/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-bin – Legacy executable.

 

BUGS

To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and/or report bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual.

 

AUTHORS

The Mozilla Organization

http://www.mozilla.org/about.html