Open web page link from command prompt
From James's Wiki
xdg-open http://google.com
dosen't work from RPI termainal
There's a command that knows about your default browser:
xdg-open http://google.com
This will also work for every other type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice documents, and so on, and also on filesystem paths (xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png).
There is also
xdg-email team@stackexchange.com
and
xdg-mime query default text/html
To find out what application is going to be used.
You can set your preffered application by going to System → Preferences → Preferred Applications:
These utilities are part of the freedesktop.org specification, so you can use them in your applications - and it's going to work on all of the desktops that adhere to the spec.