Modified start-tor-browser script for Tor Browser Bundle v3.X to pass command line arguments to Firefox. Patch is against the start-tor-browser script from TBB v3.5. Please use at your own risk!

start-tor-browser-with-args.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# GNU/Linux does not really require something like RelativeLink.c
# However, we do want to have the same look and feel with similar features.
#
# To run in debug mode simply pass --debug
#
# Copyright 2011 The Tor Project.  See LICENSE for licensing information.

complain_dialog_title="Tor Browser Bundle"

# First, make sure DISPLAY is set.  If it isn't, we're hosed; scream
# at stderr and die.
if [ "x$DISPLAY" = "x" ]; then
	echo "$complain_dialog_title must be run within the X Window System." >&2
	echo "Exiting." >&2
	exit 1
fi

# Do not (try to) connect to the session manager 
unset SESSION_MANAGER 

# Determine whether we are running in a terminal.  If we are, we
# should send our error messages to stderr...
ARE_WE_RUNNING_IN_A_TERMINAL=0
if [ -t 1 -o -t 2 ]; then
	ARE_WE_RUNNING_IN_A_TERMINAL=1
fi

# ...unless we're running in the same terminal as startx or xinit.  In
# that case, the user is probably running us from a GUI file manager
# in an X session started by typing startx at the console.
#
# Hopefully, the local ps command supports BSD-style options.  (The ps
# commands usually used on Linux and FreeBSD do; do any other OSes
# support running Linux binaries?)
ps T 2>/dev/null |grep startx 2>/dev/null |grep -v grep 2>&1 >/dev/null
not_running_in_same_terminal_as_startx="$?"
ps T 2>/dev/null |grep xinit 2>/dev/null |grep -v grep 2>&1 >/dev/null
not_running_in_same_terminal_as_xinit="$?"

# not_running_in_same_terminal_as_foo has the value 1 if we are *not*
# running in the same terminal as foo.
if [ "$not_running_in_same_terminal_as_startx" -eq 0 -o \
     "$not_running_in_same_terminal_as_xinit" -eq 0 ]; then
	ARE_WE_RUNNING_IN_A_TERMINAL=0
fi

# Complain about an error, by any means necessary.
# Usage: complain message
# message must not begin with a dash.
complain () {
	# Trim leading newlines, to avoid breaking formatting in some dialogs.
	complain_message="`echo "$1" | sed '/./,$!d'`"

	# If we're being run in a terminal, complain there.
	if [ "$ARE_WE_RUNNING_IN_A_TERMINAL" -ne 0 ]; then
		echo "$complain_message" >&2
		return
	fi

	# Otherwise, we're being run by a GUI program of some sort;
	# try to pop up a message in the GUI in the nicest way
	# possible.
	#
	# In mksh, non-existent commands return 127; I'll assume all
	# other shells set the same exit code if they can't run a
	# command.  (xmessage returns 1 if the user clicks the WM
	# close button, so we do need to look at the exact exit code,
	# not just assume the command failed to display a message if
	# it returns non-zero.)

	# First, try zenity.
	zenity --error \
		--title="$complain_dialog_title" \
		--text="$complain_message"
	if [ "$?" -ne 127 ]; then
		return
	fi

	# Try kdialog.
	kdialog --title "$complain_dialog_title" \
		--error "$complain_message"
	if [ "$?" -ne 127 ]; then
		return
	fi

	# Try xmessage.
	xmessage -title "$complain_dialog_title" \
		-center \
		-buttons OK \
		-default OK \
		-xrm '*message.scrollVertical: Never' \
		"$complain_message"
	if [ "$?" -ne 127 ]; then
		return
	fi

	# Try gxmessage.  This one isn't installed by default on
	# Debian with the default GNOME installation, so it seems to
	# be the least likely program to have available, but it might
	# be used by one of the 'lightweight' Gtk-based desktop
	# environments.
	gxmessage -title "$complain_dialog_title" \
		-center \
		-buttons GTK_STOCK_OK \
		-default OK \
		"$complain_message"
	if [ "$?" -ne 127 ]; then
		return
	fi
}

if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
	complain "The Tor Browser Bundle should not be run as root.  Exiting."
	exit 1
fi

debug=0
usage_message="usage: $0 [--debug]"
# !!! We may have more than one argument, changed -eq to -ge in if & elif clauses below
if [ "$#" -ge 1 -a \( "x$1" = "x--debug" -o "x$1" = "x-debug" \) ]; then
	debug=1
	shift # pop the debug argument
	printf "\nDebug enabled.\n\n"
elif [ "$#" -ge 1 -a \( "x$1" = "x--help" -o "x$1" = "x-help" \) ]; then
	echo "$usage_message"
	exit 0
fi

# If the user hasn't requested 'debug mode', close whichever of stdout
# and stderr are not ttys, to keep Firefox and the stuff loaded by/for
# it (including the system's shared-library loader) from printing
# messages to $HOME/.xsession-errors .  (Users wouldn't have seen
# messages there anyway.)
#
# If the user has requested 'debug mode', don't muck with the FDs.
if [ "$debug" -ne 1 ]; then
  if [ '!' -t 1 ]; then
    # stdout is not a tty
    exec >/dev/null
  fi
  if [ '!' -t 2 ]; then
    # stderr is not a tty
    exec 2>/dev/null
  fi
fi

# If XAUTHORITY is unset, set it to its default value of $HOME/.Xauthority
# before we change HOME below.  (See xauth(1) and #1945.)  XDM and KDM rely
# on applications using this default value.
if [ -z "$XAUTHORITY" ]; then
	XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority
	export XAUTHORITY
fi

# If this script is being run through a symlink, we need to know where
# in the filesystem the script itself is, not where the symlink is.
myname="$0"
if [ -L "$myname" ]; then
	# XXX readlink is not POSIX, but is present in GNU coreutils
	# and on FreeBSD.  Unfortunately, the -f option (which follows
	# a whole chain of symlinks until it reaches a non-symlink
	# path name) is a GNUism, so we have to have a fallback for
	# FreeBSD.  Fortunately, FreeBSD has realpath instead;
	# unfortunately, that's also non-POSIX and is not present in
	# GNU coreutils.
	#
	# If this launcher were a C program, we could just use the
	# realpath function, which *is* POSIX.  Too bad POSIX didn't
	# make that function accessible to shell scripts.

	# If realpath is available, use it; it Does The Right Thing.
	possibly_my_real_name="`realpath "$myname" 2>/dev/null`"
	if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
		myname="$possibly_my_real_name"
	else
		# realpath is not available; hopefully readlink -f works.
		myname="`readlink -f "$myname" 2>/dev/null`"
		if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
			# Ugh.
			complain "start-tor-browser cannot be run using a symlink on this operating system."
		fi
	fi
fi

# Try to be agnostic to where we're being started from, chdir to where
# the script is.
mydir="`dirname "$myname"`"
test -d "$mydir" && cd "$mydir"

# If ${PWD} results in a zero length HOME, we can try something else...
if [ ! "${PWD}" ]; then
	# "hacking around some braindamage"
	HOME="`pwd`"
	export HOME
	surveysays="This system has a messed up shell.\n"
else
	HOME="${PWD}"
	export HOME
fi

SYSARCHITECTURE=$(getconf LONG_BIT)
TORARCHITECTURE=$(expr "$(file Tor/tor)" : '.*ELF \([[:digit:]]*\)')

if [ $SYSARCHITECTURE -ne $TORARCHITECTURE ]; then
   complain "Wrong architecture? 32-bit vs. 64-bit."
   exit 1
fi

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${HOME}/Tor/"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

# XXX: Debug mode for Firefox??

# not in debug mode, run proceed normally
printf "\nLaunching Tor Browser Bundle for Linux in ${HOME}\n"
cd "${HOME}"
# XXX Someday we should pass whatever command-line arguments we got
# (probably filenames or URLs) to Firefox.
# !!! Dash above comment! Now we pass command-line arguments we got (except --debug) to Firefox.
# !!! Use at your own risk!
./Browser/firefox -no-remote -profile Data/Browser/profile.default ${@}
exitcode="$?"
if [ "$exitcode" -ne 0 ]; then
	complain "Tor Browser exited abnormally.  Exit code: $exitcode"
	exit "$exitcode"
else
	printf '\nTor Browser exited cleanly.\n'
fi

start-tor-browser.patch

--- /start-tor-browser
+++ /start-tor-browser-with-args
@@ -118,10 +118,12 @@
 
 debug=0
 usage_message="usage: $0 [--debug]"
-if [ "$#" -eq 1 -a \( "x$1" = "x--debug" -o "x$1" = "x-debug" \) ]; then
+# !!! We may have more than one argument, changed -eq to -ge in if & elif clauses below
+if [ "$#" -ge 1 -a \( "x$1" = "x--debug" -o "x$1" = "x-debug" \) ]; then
 	debug=1
+	shift # pop the debug argument
 	printf "\nDebug enabled.\n\n"
-elif [ "$#" -eq 1 -a \( "x$1" = "x--help" -o "x$1" = "x-help" \) ]; then
+elif [ "$#" -ge 1 -a \( "x$1" = "x--help" -o "x$1" = "x-help" \) ]; then
 	echo "$usage_message"
 	exit 0
 fi
@@ -216,7 +218,9 @@
 cd "${HOME}"
 # XXX Someday we should pass whatever command-line arguments we got
 # (probably filenames or URLs) to Firefox.
-./Browser/firefox -no-remote -profile Data/Browser/profile.default
+# !!! Dash above comment! Now we pass command-line arguments we got (except --debug) to Firefox.
+# !!! Use at your own risk!
+./Browser/firefox -no-remote -profile Data/Browser/profile.default ${@}
 exitcode="$?"
 if [ "$exitcode" -ne 0 ]; then
 	complain "Tor Browser exited abnormally.  Exit code: $exitcode"