OTTER-BROWSER

Section: USER COMMANDS (1)
Updated: January 2015
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NAME

otter-browser - the web browser controlled by the user, not vice-versa  

SYNOPSIS

otter-browser [OPTIONS] [PATH|URL|TERM...]  

DESCRIPTION

See the Otter Browser wiki for help on using the browser:
<https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/wiki/>
 

OPTIONS

--profile=PATH
Specifies the directory that profile (user data) is kept in. Defaults to ~/.config/otter.
--cache=PATH
Specifies the directory that cache data is kept in. Defaults to ~/.cache/otter.
--session=IDENTIFIER
Tries to load session specified by IDENTIFIER.
--private-session
Starts private session.
--session-chooser
Forces session chooser dialog.
--portable
Sets profile and cache paths to directories inside the same directory as that of application binary.
--new-tab=URL
Loads URL in new tab.
--new-private-tab=URL
Loads URL in new private tab.
--new-window=URL
Loads URL in new window.
--new-private-window=URL
Loads URL in new private window.
--readonly
Tells application to avoid writing data to disk.
--report
Prints out diagnostic report and exits application.
-h, --help
Show list of supported command line options.
-v, --version
Show version information.

As a Qt application, Otter also obeys Qt command-line flags, see the Qt documentation for complete list:

<http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qguiapplication.html#QGuiApplication>
 

FILES

~/.config/otter
Default directory for configuration data.
~/.cache/otter
Default directory for cache data.
 

BUGS

Bug tracker:
https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/issues

Be sure to do your search within open and closed issues before submitting reports.  

AUTHOR

The Otter Browser team - <https://otter-browser.org>


 

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