Start App from terminal with focus

Question

I start my firefox with a fixed profile from terminal using:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -no-remote -P UserName

It works nicely, but the focus is on Terminal and not on firefox.

Is there a way to change this?

Answer 1

You can use the following instead:

open -n /Applications/Firefox.app --args -no-remote -P UserName

-n means a new instance of the application is launched, even if there's already one open. Everything after --args is being passed on as arguments to the application.

Answer 2

A kludgy hack would be to add the following after the command:

& osascript -e 'tell application "Firefox"' -e 'activate' -e 'end tell'

Or alternatively you could use open /Applications/Firefox.app if you don't need to specify the profile you want to use.