firefox_cli

Manage your firefox with the terminal.

Firefox manages to be power user hostile. This small tool tries to fix that. So if you want to deploy firefox in your enterprise and want to set the default search engine, or want to list the history of open tabs? firefox_cli has your back.

Installation

If you put your binaries in ~/.local/bin:

PREFIX="$HOME/.local" make install

If you can't figure this out and want to use this tool anyway, message me.

Usage

firefox_cli [-b BROWSER] [-P PROFILE] extract FILE

Flags

• -b <BROWSER>: 'firefox' | 'librewolf'. Firefox is the default.
• -P <PROFILE>: string. Profile name. If no profile is passed it tries to use the default one.

Commands

• extract <FILE>: Some files in the profile are compressed with LZ4. Pass the relative path. You can use this one to get the currently open tabs with

  firefox_cli extract sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4

• compress <FILE>: The reverse operation.

• get_path [FILE]: Get the path to the profile or a file in the profile.

• remove_profile: Removes a profile