Re: [tlug] Reloading a Firefox Page from the Command Line

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Hi Curt,

I do not think there is a way to do this using a Firefox command line switch, 
but it is possible to do it using the XTest extension.  The only tricky part 
is giving focus to the target window in order to send it commands.  To give 
it a try, install the xautomation package:

http://www.hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html

Here is an example of how I would do it on my system, which is configured to 
give focus under the mouse and raises the window on a left mouse click.  In 
this example, I keep the Firefox window at the top left of the screen and 
want to raise it so that I can see the results of the reload:

xte 'mousemove 0 0' 'keydown Control_L' 'key R' 'keyup Control_L' \
	'mouseclick 1'

Cheers,

Travis

On Thursday 21 February 2008 17:26:36 Curt Sampson wrote:
> I would like to have a script I run from the Unix command line tell a
> running Firefox instance to reload the tab it's currently displaying.
> Does anybody have any idea how to do this?