Looking for a terminal command to open Brave tab in existing window

I am moving over from Firefox and am looking to set up some similar commands on Linux. The command I use is to open Firefox as a new window and if a window already exists, then it opens a new tab on that same window.

“firefox --new-tab --url about:newtab”

When substituting the old command to:

“brave-browser --new-tab --url about:newtab”

It opens up a new window for each iteration of a new tab instead of multiple tabs within the same window.


Brave Version( check About Brave): 1.68.141

Additional Information: This was a macro set up on a stream deck but is ran through terminal

Hello @tsunpot

check this one
brave-browser-stable --app-url "www.dell.com"

based on this link

hope that help and have a nice day :slight_smile:

That does work for making dell.com the default page when opening a new tab with the command, but what about a blank new tab? I tried “about:newtab” and “homepage:newtab” with no luck. would --app-url need to be changed to something else?

not sure if that what you want or not

brave-browser-stable --app-url "about:blank"
brave-browser-stable "about:blank"

hope that help and have a nice day :slight_smile:

I was trying to set the dashboard as the new tab option and have it open to that each time I ran the command but that only seems to open in a new window when I tried all of that. about:blank does work to open new tabs instead of new windows like what I was trying for but I cant really do anything with that. At this point I think I’ll just have to settle for a search engine for the new tab option.

this one brave-browser-stable "brave://newtab" open new tab but in new window
will see if i can find anything and let you know