title: Launching a website via windows commandline
body: <p>I have a program launching a website via the following command.</p>
  
  <pre><code>cmd "start /max http://url.com"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When launching a website via this method it uses the default browser with its default settings for opening a new window.  for example, Firefox and IE will open the window inside the tab of an existing window if they are set to do so.  I have reports of IE 6 replacing the content of a current opened window with the content of url.com.  I've tested this and sure enough when IE 6 is set as the default browser and with a current webpage opened the above will replace the content of the opened window with url.com rather than opening a fresh window.</p>
  
  <p>Upon running some tests I see the command listed here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cmd "start /max iexplore.exe http://url.com"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>will consistently open a new window( with Internet Explorer of course) regardless of an existing window being present or not.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone tell me if I'm missing a silly setting in IE 6 or if there is a way to duplicate the "always open a new window" functionality exhibited by calling iexplore.exe directly, but with calling the user default browser instead.</p>