You can appled the URL to the command line parameter for example in IE:
C:\Windows\System32>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://stackoverflow.com/
Firefox:
C:\Windows\System32>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" stackov
erflow.com
and Chrome:
C:\Windows\System32>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
" stackoverflow.com
Works on windows, you will need to replace C:\Windows\System32>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application
with the the location of the application in your environment