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Friday, October 25, 2019 12:16 AM

I need to launch firefox.exe with url in PS and tried the followings with error. I tried to add its path to environment variable PATH but still not working. any suggestion? Thanks

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PS C:\ .\firefox.exe -url https://www.google.com

.\firefox.exe : The term '.\firefox.exe' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a
path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (.\firefox.exe:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

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PS C:\ Start-Process "firefox.exe -url https://www.google.com"

Start-Process : This command cannot be run due to the error: The system cannot find the file specified.
At line:1 char:1

  • Start-Process "firefox.exe -url https://www.google.com"

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand

All replies (5)

Friday, October 25, 2019 12:19 AM ✅Answered

X:\path-to-firefox\firefox.exe "http://website-to-launch.com/yadda"

Friday, October 25, 2019 9:10 PM ✅Answered

All the replies have problems.  This might be the easiest way:

start firefox yahoo.com

Or

start firefox '-url',https://www.google.com  # -args is an array
# firefox opts need quotes
start firefox '-url https://www.google.com' # or this way

Or even this if firefox is your default browser:

start http://yahoo.com

Adding to your path in your $profile:

$env:path += ';C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox'
firefox yahoo.com

Running the full path is tricky.  You'd either have to use the call operator with a quoted path, or backtick escape the spaces (and parentheses in the 32-bit version).

& 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe'  # tab completion forms this
C:\Program` Files\Mozilla` Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program` Files` `(x86`)\Mozilla` Firefox\firefox.exe
cd 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox'; .\firefox

Friday, October 25, 2019 8:40 AM

Hi,

Thanks for your question.

You need to use the absolute path for your .exe file. Or use "set-location" cmdlet to set the location to the path where the file located.

set-location "The folder path where the file is located"
Start-Process "firefox.exe" -url "https://www.google.com"

Best regards,

Lee

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Friday, October 25, 2019 1:17 PM

PS C:\ "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -url https://www.google.com

At line:1 char:48

  • "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -url https://www.googl ...
    +                                                ~~~~
    Unexpected token '-url' in expression or statement.
    At line:1 char:53
  • ... rogram Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -url https://www.google.com
    +                                                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Unexpected token 'https://www.google.com' in expression or statement.
        + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnexpectedToken

Friday, October 25, 2019 1:21 PM

PS C:\ set-location "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\

PS C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox> Start-Process "firefox.exe" -url "https://www.google.com"
Start-Process : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'url'.
At line:1 char:29

  • Start-Process "firefox.exe" -url "https://www.google.com"
    +                             ~~~~
        + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Start-Process], ParameterBindingException
        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand