Open multiple firefox tabs from command line

I'm trying to open firefox with two tabs from the command line, with two separate web addresses. So far I'm having no luck.

firefox -new-tab https://www.evernote.com/Home.action -new-tab http://www.gmail.com

Could someone point me in the right direction?

Oops. I just found the answer. You need to add a -url after each `-new-tab'.

firefox -new-tab -url https://www.evernote.com/Home.action -new-tab -url http://www.gmail.com

Now it works. Hope this can help somebody.

You no longer need to add -url, simply write firefox followed by space-separated URLs.

Example:

firefox mail.google.com askubuntu.com stackoverflow.com

Create a file containing list of URLs called url.txt:

http://www.url1.xxx
http://www.url2.xxx
http://www.url3.xxx

Firefox uses the new-tab command, so you could pass the URLs in the file to the browser like so:

xargs -a url.txt firefox -new-tab "$line"

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