Have you tried: open -a Mozilla.app http://google.com ? Stroller On 13 Jan 2006, at 18:58, Warren Pollans wrote: > Thanks. The manpage for 'open' seemed to suggest that I could specify > the application to be used to open the file "(or a directory or URL)". > I'll either use your suggestion about applescript or the full path to > the binary. > >>> >>> BUT "open -a mozilla http://google.com" opens firefox