I am presenting this in case you find it interesting, useful, or instructive, or for any constructive criticism so I can learn more.
Here is the script I use to launch surf called mysurf: #!/bin/sh cd ~/downloads exec surf "$@" 2>>surf-stder >>surf-stdout I don't launch surf directly because: I could be in any directory when I start surf and surf sometimes downloads files that I don't even ask for, so these downloaded files with random names used to be spread throughout my directory tree when I invoked surf directly. Now they are all in ~/downloads. I don't want my tty being polluted with messages from surf, so I save them all in the same place, in case I ever want to see them (which I rarely do). The 'exec' on the last line is because I don't need the shell after I start surf. -- http://www.fastmail.com - Does exactly what it says on the tin
