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Gladius 3 3 3 bronze badges. Daryl Gill Daryl Gill 5, 7 7 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 69 69 bronze badges. The first quoted argument isn't the program to use, but the window title ignored in case of a browser — Stephan. Are you sure it's not iexplore. To launch page from specific browser, one can use start "iexplore.

Tilak Patil Tilak Patil 21 6 6 bronze badges. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked Related Hot Network Questions. Question feed. As stated by Joey , you should use a different format for URLs with special chars:. I think it is because in the later example google. What's "launch" in this context?

You've launched your url from a command-line directly i. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 4 months ago. Active 1 year, 3 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Kazark 3, 3 3 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Krishna Kumar Krishna Kumar. I always thought iexplore www.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. This worked for me. Note that this will open the URL with whatever application is configured as the default browser.

Random 5 5 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Process]::Start "firefox. CMD Using start command only idris19's method is really handy! As said before, URL is open in your default browser if none is specified. Bk01 23 4 4 bronze badges. Bk01 Bk01 41 2 2 bronze badges. You can use URL shorteners.

For your link: start [created link]. Antonio Gschossmann Antonio Gschossmann 1 1 gold badge 7 7 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. This is not an acceptable solution. There's no need for a URL shortener. Hariom Hariom 11 1 1 bronze badge. Wanderson Rodrigo Wanderson Rodrigo 3 3 bronze badges.

This isn't ideal. You should use whatever browser the user wants to use. Bk01 Bk01 23 4 4 bronze badges.