Hi,

I'm writing a script the features the below line:

/usr/bin/firefox https://www.youtube.com/ &

I need the page to open in the middle of its content instead of the top, as it does by default. Is it possible to do that?

Maybe if the page has something like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...n-scroll-point

E.g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey
or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey#See_also

good luck?

So far as I am aware, the only reasonably-reliable way to do that is with <a> anchor-tags within the HTML content that is being displayed, as noted in the referenced StackOverflow reply.

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Utarg, my second link is to a plug in that can:

"... but will they work on Internet Explorer 8?"

... ...

Anchor elements have been shown but should be mentioned by name, no pun intended. What you are looking for in the target page is an anchor element with a name="" attribute somewhere, if the target is not HTML5. If the target is HTML5, then an id attribute is needed. An id attribute can be used in earlier versions of HTML / XHTML.

IMHO HTML5 is a mess from having had influence from M$, which only ever leads to damage.

Be that as it may, the page you use as an example, youtube.com, is HTML5 and has a lot of elements with id attributes to choose from. But most of them seem to be auto-generated and random and thus unpredictable. There are a few apparently fixed ones like "guide" scattered about:

http://www.youtube.com/#guide

I'm sure you can augment any pages you are viewing... but the script is for:
/usr/bin/firefox and?