FIREFOX-ESR(1)

💖 FIREFOX-ESR(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the <strong>Linux User's Manual</strong> page for <code>firefox-esr</code>, and yes we are doing the whole thing, every flag, no skips, periodt ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

firefox-esr — a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

firefox-esr [OPTIONS] [URL]

/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr [OPTIONS] [URL]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Firefox ESR is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. iconic behaviour honestly 🌈

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✨ USAGE ✨

So here's the tea 🍓: if there's already a Firefox ESR browser running, firefox-esr will arrange for it to create a new browser window. If there isn't one running, it starts a whole new instance. She's flexible like that 💁‍♀️

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

A summary of the options supported by firefox-esr is included below. Buckle up, there's a lot of them, and we love that for us 💖

🌟 X11 options 🌟

• --display=DISPLAY — X display to use 🖥️
• --sync — Make X calls synchronous. lowkey a debugging vibe
• --no-xshm — Don't use the X shared memory extension
• --xim-preedit=STYLE — no description given, bestie, the manpage just leaves this one hanging 💀
• --xim-status=STYLE — same situation, the original says nothing more 🙈
• --g-fatal-warnings — Make all warnings fatal. dramatic? yes. intentional? also yes 🔥

🧚 Mozilla options 🧚

• -h, -help — Show summary of options. the classic "help me" move 🫶
• -v, -version — Print Firefox ESR version.
• -P [profile] — Start with profile. When no profile is given, displays the Profile Manager. May require -no-remote, see below 👀
• -migration — Start with migration wizard. May require -no-remote, see below 👀
• -ProfileManager — Start with profile manager. May require -no-remote, see below 👀
• -no-remote — Don't connect to a running Firefox ESR instance. This option can be necessary in conjunction to several of the options above, that won't have any effect when an Firefox ESR instance is running unless -no-remote is used at the same time. this one is the main character of "why isn't my flag doing anything" 😭
• -UILocale locale — Start with locale resources as User Interface locale. By default, it is guessed from environment and available locales for Firefox ESR.
• -safe-mode — Starts Firefox ESR in safe mode, i.e. disabling all extensions and showing a bit more debugging messages. chaos off, debug on 💅
• -jsconsole — Start with Javascript Console.
• -new-window URL — Open URL in a new window in an already running Firefox ESR process.
• -new-tab URL — Open URL in a new tab in an already running Firefox ESR process.
• -chrome url — Load the specified chrome.

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS — when set, totally disables loading browser plugins (the ones that appear at the about:plugins url). literally all of them. gone. bye 🫶

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /usr/bin/firefox-esr — symbolic link to /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr.
• /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr — Firefox ESR executable.
• /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-bin — Legacy executable. old but still invited to the party 💜

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💀 BUGS 💀

To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and/or report bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual. (yes bestie, "as usual" — they said it, not me 😭)

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

The Mozilla Organization — http://www.mozilla.org/about.html

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and that's the whole page, no cap ✨ this firefox-esr manpage came to you from the <strong>Linux User's Manual</strong>, dated <strong>November 4, 2004</strong> (a vintage queen, fr fr 💅), and she's still out here serving <strong>FIREFOX-ESR(1)</strong>. mwah, go browse something slay 🎀💖🦋