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How to open an URL in the current tab of Firefox with command line?

To open an URL from the command line, it’s quite simple

firefox URL

According to firefox --help, there is an option to open it in a new tab: --new-tab. However, it seems to be the default behavior (version 68.2.0esr).

Is there a way to explicitly open an URL in the current tab from a command line?