Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:17:24 -0500 From: jbarnet <jackbarnett@gmail.com> To: Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> Cc: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make a symlink to a webpage? Message-ID: <469BFC84.8020506@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8d23ec860707161417n744e52d9mcef58f9807ab695d@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90707161250k6aadaed4sff953baec39403da@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860707161417n744e52d9mcef58f9807ab695d@mail.gmail.com>
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Schiz0 wrote: > On 7/16/07, Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> wrote: >> I know this is browser-specific, so let's just say firefox - how do I >> make a link to a page that I can execute directly? This is not the >> type of thing that's easy to google for. I tried copying some of the >> ".url" links from my win32 box and opening them with firefox, but that >> was just wishful thinking... >> >> Thanks, >> Steve > > I'm not sure if you can, to be honest. (Although I may be wrong). > Windows lets you do this because the .url extension is associated with > your browser through the windows registry. Hardly any other operating > systems have a registry type thing...(I don't even think mac has one). > > What you could do is make a shell script that executes your browser > with a command line option with the URL. Check the docs for your > browser, almost every browser lets you do this. Like "firefox > -url=http://asdf.com" or something. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Probably depends on the desktop actually. If you have Gnome or KDE then you should be able to do this, since it is very basic functionality of any modern desktop. I just looked at this in KDE: on your desktop, right click and goto 'new' and then goto 'location [url]' - type in the info and hit 'ok'. I don't have the Gnome installed, but bet that the functionality is there in one of the menus.
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