Returning control to cmd.exe after launching an application

Question

The use case is as follows:

1. Launch firefox
2. Execute commands in cmd.exe

I need to wrap this in a batch script. But when I launch firefox from the cmd.exe, the cmd.exe has lost the control and the control is returned only after firefox is closed. But I need to perform some operations (step 2) with firefox opened. How can I return control back to cmd.exe once firefox is launched. I know that in linux you can simply use "&" after the command to do so, but I am unaware of any such functionality in windows.

Answer 1

I think you can solve that using this in your batch file

start c:\firefoxFolder\firefox.exe
// issue other commands

Answer 2

Try this:

start "Firefox" "c:\program files\firefox folder\firefox.exe"