Firefox Ready

Objective

I want my ubuntu to start and show a Duck Duck Go in fullscreen.

Motivation

The first thing that I do on my PC is launch the Firefox and do stuff. For other stuff I hit the ctrl+alt+T and do things in the terminal. I want Firefox to start and be ready for me to work on.

Ethics

Saving Time, Making the computer have a better workflow for a person like me [someone who spends most of his time using the browser], serving my laziness.

Initial Hypothesis

I can make linux run Firefox using some commands at startup which will make it run in fullscreen and have opened the Duck Duck Go page.

Updates

20:56:44 15/08/18: I am learning the commands available for Firefox from here.

21:12:15 15/08/18: Done with commands. The command to start Firefox with default user and make it launch Duck Duck Go is firefox “www.duckduckgo.com”. I only need to find a way to make it open in fullscreen now.

21:35:48 15/08/18: There is no way fullscreen launch can be performed using firefox’s commands. Neither does linux have any command to make Firefox launch in fullscreen. I might need to either send a keystroke F11 or use some plugin to accomplish this. But sending a keystore needs moe than one command and I don’t know if that will be as easy or not. And using a plugin is not favourable firstly because I don’t want every Firefox launch to be in fullscreen and secondly I don’t want to install another plugin.

Write a miniscript with xdotool:

#!/bin/sh
firefox &
xdotool search --sync --onlyvisible --pid $! windowactivate key F11