Browser-laptop: Hints on command-line switches please

[tukoz]

Are there any switches to pass to the browser from command-line?

I tried the über common --help, -new-tab $url, -n $url (open $url in a new tab) and some others with no success yet. Would like to include the browser in a real-world application test that relies on opening N pages via a simple script but this forbids it.

Sorry if the answer's present; I just couldn't find it.

[DamianStanger]

+1
Id like to hook into my auto hotkey script

[tukoz]

Brave v0.8 is just the same total lack in this field.
E.g. no --help (nor man page), open in new {tab,window,private-session}, or else that I could find.

Any plan for introducing some basic command-line switches?

[bbondy]

yes we need this we just haven't added it yet, we should be consistent with other popular browsers at least.

[tukoz]

Hey thank for answering! Roadmap?

[salty-horse]

It would also be nice to know what --version of Brave I have installed without launching it.

[JamoCA]

I perform this same function on Windows using Firefox and an "OpenWith" extension. This Add-on enables me to instantly launch any other browser using the current URL. As of 3/8/2017, Brave Browser only opens using the URL IF the browser isn't already open.

• If Brave is already open, nothing happens.
• If Brave is not open, the browser is launched with the URL... and another Brave browser window with the previous session's URL is also opened. ???

I'm currently doing this w/Chrome, IE, Edge, Opera, Safari... Brave is the only browser to misbehave.

(NOTE: I've added "--" as command line argument and it seems to work. Additional clicked links while Brave is open are launched as tabs within the already-open Brave browser.)

[aliddell]

Ditto -- have 0.18.16 as my default browser on Ubuntu and xdg-open will exhibit the exact behavior @JamoCA mentioned. I could modify the command line passed to it to maybe fix this -- if I knew what flags I could use.

[bsclifton]

@aliddell the issue you mentioned above was originally tracked with https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9193

Would you mind leaving some comments there about your setup? (@crysman also didn't have luck with the fix I attempted and is running Xubuntu 16.10). The fix I attempted was discovered by @DivineOmega and simply updates the .desktop file by providing a different Exec line (is that file being ignored perhaps?)

Because you can pass Chromium flags to Brave (which are in the --flagName=value format), the path argument that would get passed to Brave needs to be escaped. For example:
brave -- "pathHere"

BTW: for folks curious about the various flags, you can check out a full list here:
https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

[aliddell]

@bsclifton Sure I will. Thanks for the info.

[srirambv]

+1 from fadiphi via https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/391

[srirambv]

This should be fixed with brave-core. Command line options are available as out-of-box feature on brave-core

cc: @bsclifton

[bsclifton]

@srirambv many of the non-working switches will be fixed with Brave Core - the documentation of them still has to be done. I created https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/393 to track that work in Brave Core 😄

Since we won't be getting around to it with browser-laptop, I'm going to close this issue as wontfix