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TIL: You can open man or info pages in Firefox by man:<page> or info:<page>

25 pointsby mofosyneabout 1 year ago
Turns out in firefox, they added a feature on their latest browser at least where you can open man or info pages in firefox simply by typing in `man:&lt;page&gt;` or `info:&lt;page&gt;`<p>Try typing `man:ls` for instance. I tried it on chrome as well, but this seems to be a firefox only feature.

4 comments

mofosyneabout 1 year ago
Addendum from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@mofosyne&#x2F;112385581085525369" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@mofosyne&#x2F;112385581085525369</a><p>Turns out that it&#x27;s because KHelpCenter in some linux distros hooks to these uris. So typing this uri would autoopen these man entries in KHelpCenter.
stonegrayabout 1 year ago
Related, macOS has a similar url schema:<p>x-man-page:&#x2F;&#x2F;man
Am4TIfIsER0pposabout 1 year ago
&gt; The address wasn’t understood<p>version 125 isn&#x27;t new enough for you?<p>Oh you mean firefox looks uses a protocol handler installed on your system to open an unusual link? Never heard of mailto: irc: magnet:? I think even steam had its own at one point.
john534675about 1 year ago
It does not work for me.