Launching a website via windows commandline

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I have a program launching a website via the following command   cmd  start  max http   url com    When launching a website via this method it uses the default browser with its default settings for opening a new window   for example  Firefox and IE will open the window inside the tab of an existing window if they are set to do so   I have reports of IE 6 replacing the content of a current opened window with the content of url com   I ve tested this and sure enough when IE 6 is set as the default browser and with a current webpage opened the above will replace the content of the opened window with url com rather than opening a fresh window   Upon running some tests I see the command listed here   cmd  start  max iexplore exe http   url com    will consistently open a new window  with Internet Explorer of course  regardless of an existing window being present or not   Can anyone tell me if I m missing a silly setting in IE 6 or if there is a way to duplicate the  always open a new window  functionality exhibited by calling iexplore exe directly  but with calling the user default browser instead

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You can just use  explorer  https   google com    Which will launch your default browser and navigate to that site   And on Mac I ve using  open  https   google com

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start chrome https   www google com  or start firefox https   www google com

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To open a URL with the default browser  you can execute   rundll32 url dll FileProtocolHandler https   www google com   I had issues with URL parameters with the other solutions  However  this one seemed to work correctly

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Using a CLI  the easiest way  cross-platform  I ve found is to use the NPM package https   github com sindresorhus open-cli npm install --global open-cli Installing it globally allows running something like open-cli https   unlyed github io next-right-now   You can also install it locally  e g  in a project  and run npx open-cli https   unlyed github io next-right-now  Or  using a NPM script  which is how I actually use it    quot doc online quot    quot open-cli https   unlyed github io next-right-now  quot   Running yarn doc online will open the webpage  and this works on any platform  windows  mac  linux

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You can start web pages using command line in any browser typing this command  cd  your chrome directory  start  max http   google com   save it as bat and run it

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Ok  The Windows 10 BatchFile is done works just like I had hoped  First press the windows key and R  Type mmc and Enter  In File Add SnapIn Got to a specific Website and add it to the list  Press OK in the tab  and on the left side console root menu double click your site  Once it opens Add it to favourites  That should place it in C  Users user AppData Roaming Microsoft StartMenu Programs Windows Administrative Tools  I made a shortcut of this to a folder on the desktop  Right click the Shortcut and view the properties  In the Shortcut tab of the Properties click advanced and check the Run as Administrator  The Start in Location is also on the Shortcuts Tab you can add that to your batch file if you need  The Batch I made is as follows   echo off title Manage SiteEnviro color 0a  Clock cls echo Date  date  Time  time  pause cls c  WINDOWS System32 netstat c  WINDOWS System32 netstat -an goto Greeting   Greeting cls echo Open ShellSite pause cls goto Manage SiteEnviro   Manage SiteEnviro  C  Users user AppData Roaming Microsoft Start Menu Programs Administrative Tools YourCustomSavedMMC msc    You need to make a shortcut when you save this as a bat file and in the properties shortcuts advanced enable administrator access  can also set a keybind there and change the icon if you like  I probably did not need  Clock  The netstat commands can change to setting a hosted network or anything you want including nothing  Can Canscade websites in 1 mmc console and have more than 1 favourite added into the batch file

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Working from VaLo s answer   cd  directory to browser   browser s name to main executable  firefox  chrome  opera  etc    https   www google com   start https   www google com doesn t seem to work  at least in my environment

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This worked for me  explorer  lt YOUR URL gt   For example  explorer  quot https   www google com  quot   This will open https   www google com  in your default browser

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IE has a setting  located in Tools   Internet options   Advanced   Browsing  called Reuse windows for launching shortcuts  which is checked by default  For IE versions that support tabbed browsing  this option is relevant only when tab browsing is turned off  in fact  IE9 Beta explicitly mentions this   However  since IE6 does not have tabbed browsing  this option does affect opening URLs through the shell  as in your example

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